Jamel
Jamel was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,778 among boys’ names; 11,592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,100 Americans named Jamel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jamel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jamel?
#2,778 among boys’ names, 2025
Jamel fell from #1,422 in 2015 to #2,778 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 63.1 to 26.9 per million.
373 babies in 1988, the peak
Jamel peaked in 1988, when 373 babies were given it (360 boys, #485 among boys’ names). The 46 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #2,778 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 46 | #2,809 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,453 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,256 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 83 | #1,858 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 82 | #1,821 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 77 | #1,923 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 88 | #1,752 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,560 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,581 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 121 | #1,422 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,554 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,258 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 141 | #1,255 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,189 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 178 | #1,082 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 205 | #975 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 182 | #1,043 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 205 | #964 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 194 | #960 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 207 | #882 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 182 | #929 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 200 | #863 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 218 | #790 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 191 | #844 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 201 | #800 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 237 | #704 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 214 | #750 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 201 | #747 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 247 | #666 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 227 | #700 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 301 | #597 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 287 | #614 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 307 | #585 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 345 | #547 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 359 | #518 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 347 | #513 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 360 | #485 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 331 | #486 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 328 | #483 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 303 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 287 | #501 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 319 | #467 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 283 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 238 | #549 | 0.13 |
| 1980 | 276 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1979 | 273 | #506 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 295 | #472 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 235 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 230 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 185 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 151 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 136 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 93 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 78 | #925 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 37 | #1,383 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 47 | #1,140 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 20 | #1,805 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,288 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,704 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,099 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,950 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,821 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,214 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,258 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,189 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,928 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jamel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,592 Americans recorded as Jamel, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 46 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jamel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jamel, and how old are they?
11,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 11,592 Americans ever recorded as Jamel. The median Jamel alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 8,587 people named Jamel (356 women and girls, 8,231 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,852 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 47 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,780 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,060 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,110 |
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 Jamel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9 | #1,244 | 4.6× |
Where Jamel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jamel is most over-represented in New York: since 1950 it was given 4.6 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 Jamel 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, Jamel is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 335 babies (14%), the third 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 Jamel
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 Jamel and names like it
- Compare Jamel and JamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJamel peaked in 1988.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jamel since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Jamel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jamel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.