Kamal
Kamal was given to 43 boys in 2025, #2,906 among boys’ names; 3,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,990 Americans named Kamal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kamal mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kamal is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “perfection” (كَمَال).
Also “a male given name, feminine equivalent Kamala.”
Transliteration of Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kamal?
#2,906 among boys’ names, 2025
Kamal fell from #2,506 in 2015 to #2,906 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.1 to 25.2 per million.
97 babies in 2009, the peak
Kamal peaked in 2009, when 97 boys were given it, #1,631 among boys’ names. The 43 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #2,906 | 25.2 |
| 2024 | 51 | #2,614 | 29.6 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,822 | 26.3 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,539 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,396 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 51 | #2,525 | 29.5 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,244 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,182 | 35.2 |
| 2017 | 53 | #2,435 | 28.6 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,452 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #2,506 | 26.1 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,732 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 55 | #2,314 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,400 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,251 | 30.5 |
| 2010 | 69 | #1,991 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 97 | #1,631 | 48.9 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,221 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 71 | #1,989 | 34.2 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,269 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 79 | #1,697 | 39.6 |
| 2004 | 66 | #1,863 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,917 | 30.9 |
| 2002 | 87 | #1,461 | 44.8 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,404 | 45.8 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,434 | 43.8 |
| 1999 | 74 | #1,521 | 38.5 |
| 1998 | 59 | #1,728 | 30.9 |
| 1997 | 69 | #1,511 | 36.6 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,341 | 42.8 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,381 | 38.3 |
| 1994 | 67 | #1,439 | 34.7 |
| 1993 | 65 | #1,448 | 33.1 |
| 1992 | 54 | #1,623 | 27.0 |
| 1991 | 57 | #1,532 | 28.2 |
| 1990 | 47 | #1,711 | 22.9 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,875 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,889 | 18.3 |
| 1987 | 46 | #1,550 | 24.6 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,677 | 20.6 |
| 1985 | 39 | #1,629 | 21.1 |
| 1984 | 42 | #1,493 | 23.3 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,500 | 22.9 |
| 1982 | 51 | #1,312 | 28.1 |
| 1981 | 40 | #1,528 | 22.3 |
| 1980 | 57 | #1,220 | 32.0 |
| 1979 | 66 | #1,102 | 38.3 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,139 | 36.5 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,132 | 35.9 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,587 | 21.7 |
| 1975 | 26 | #1,856 | 16.7 |
| 1974 | 30 | #1,636 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,566 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,204 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,666 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,031 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,961 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,518 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,242 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,332 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,729 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,771 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kamal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kamal has been given almost only to boys: 25 girls in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kamal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamal, and how old are they?
2,990 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,101 Americans ever recorded as Kamal. The median Kamal alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 7,855 people named Kamal (635 women and girls, 7,220 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 398 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 782 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 676 |
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 Kamal born?
The states with the most babies named Kamal are New York, California and New Jersey, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 360 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| California | 219 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 143 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 116 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 64 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 56 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 53 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 41 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Kamal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kamal is most over-represented in New York: since 1946 it was given 1.8 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 Kamal 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,766 babies since 1880, Kamal is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 97 babies (44%), again the most given.
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 Kamal
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 Kamal and names like it
- Compare Kamal and KamilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKamal peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kamal since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kamal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kamal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.