Jamaal
Jamaal was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,077 among boys’ names; 8,587 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,170 Americans named Jamaal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamaal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamaal?
#4,077 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamaal fell from #2,122 in 2015 to #4,077 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 34.4 to 15.2 per million.
724 babies in 1982, the peak
Jamaal peaked in 1982, when 724 babies were given it (715 boys, #286 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,077 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 34 | #3,417 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,195 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,562 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,670 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,233 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,503 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,859 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,026 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,018 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,122 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,215 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,147 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,804 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 75 | #1,878 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 88 | #1,729 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 102 | #1,584 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 87 | #1,748 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 118 | #1,391 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 125 | #1,318 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,303 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 111 | #1,329 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,237 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,100 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,297 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,221 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,096 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 116 | #1,103 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 112 | #1,124 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 135 | #954 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 144 | #921 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 178 | #794 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 193 | #751 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 228 | #683 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 255 | #639 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 228 | #669 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 245 | #635 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 253 | #581 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 264 | #559 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 258 | #553 | 0.14 |
| 1985 | 347 | #463 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 402 | #411 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 578 | #328 | 0.32 |
| 1982 | 715 | #286 | 0.39 |
| 1981 | 382 | #428 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 446 | #382 | 0.25 |
| 1979 | 203 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 194 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 208 | #579 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 230 | #532 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 63 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,990 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,045 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,465 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamaal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamaal has been given almost only to boys: 45 girls in 56 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jamaal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamaal, and how old are they?
8,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 8,587 Americans ever recorded as Jamaal. The median Jamaal alive today is 38 years old; half are between 27 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 6,180 people named Jamaal (17 women and girls, 6,163 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,080 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,280 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,570 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 633 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jamaal born?
The states with the most babies named Jamaal are New York, California and Florida, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 685 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 676 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 600 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 543 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 458 | #2,737 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 397 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 322 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 302 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 301 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Louisiana | 267 | not ranked | 1.6× |
Where Jamaal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamaal is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1970 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jamaal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 69,443 babies since 1880, Jamaal is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 335 babies (7.8%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jamaal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jamaal and names like it
- Compare Jamaal and JamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamaal peaked in 1982.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamaal since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jamaal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamaal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.