Jamahl
Jamahl was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 734 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamahl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamahl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,975, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1988, the peak
Jamahl peaked in 1988, when 26 boys were given it, #2,321 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #9,975 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,950 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,975 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,427 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,105 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,982 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,124 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,321 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,155 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,100 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #13,078 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,925 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,936 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,237 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,900 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,377 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,873 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,018 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,582 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,677 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,885 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,058 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,745 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,127 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,732 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,292 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,052 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,185 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #3,991 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,043 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,510 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,640 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,321 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,501 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,050 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #2,880 | 9.2 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,018 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,837 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,897 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,232 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 25 | #2,138 | 14.0 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,416 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,129 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,715 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,199 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,099 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,883 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,351 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,111 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,949 | 12.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,016 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,946 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamahl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jamahl has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jamahl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamahl, and how old are they?
An estimated 697 Americans named Jamahl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 24 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 487 people named Jamahl (3 women and girls, 484 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 702 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Jamahl?
Jamahl is a less common spelling of Jamal: SSA has recorded 734 Jamahl and 33,501 Jamal since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,966 babies since 1880, Jamahl is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 335 babies recorded by SSA was a Jamahl (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jamahl
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 Jamahl and names like it
- Compare Jamahl and JamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamahl peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamahl since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jamahl.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamahl alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.