Kamaal
Kamaal was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 317 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamaal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kamaal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,413, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1991, the peak
Kamaal peaked in 1991, when 18 boys were given it, #3,393 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,413 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,419 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,129 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,490 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,269 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,377 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,046 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,819 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,554 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,323 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #9,431 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,463 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,009 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,419 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,759 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,493 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,558 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,015 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,700 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,293 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,933 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,497 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,327 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,665 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,980 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,437 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,393 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,791 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,922 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,840 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,160 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,813 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,509 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,726 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,112 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kamaal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kamaal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kamaal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamaal, and how old are they?
An estimated 308 Americans named Kamaal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 309 people named Kamaal (5 women and girls, 304 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Kamaal?
Kamaal is a less common spelling of Kamal: SSA has recorded 317 Kamaal and 3,101 Kamal since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,660 babies since 1880, Kamaal is the fourth most given (4.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 92 babies recorded by SSA was a Kamaal (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 Kamaal
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 Kamaal and names like it
- Compare Kamaal and KamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKamaal peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kamaal since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kamaal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kamaal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.