Jamal — #1181 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jamal

The Social Security Administration has registered 33,063 babies named Jamal between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jamal currently holds the #1181 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 1,246 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jamal performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 10,265 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Jamal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 4,008 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jamal in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jamal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 33,063 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.