Kamel
Kamel was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,579 among boys’ names; 599 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kamel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kamel?
#8,579 among boys’ names, 2025
Kamel fell from #8,373 in 2015 to #8,579 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 5.3 per million.
24 babies in 2012, the peak
Kamel peaked in 2012, when 24 boys were given it, #4,199 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,579 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,040 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,986 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,639 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,896 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,830 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,595 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,526 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,318 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,185 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,373 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,285 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,448 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,199 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,813 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,205 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,028 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,814 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,320 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,176 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,726 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,975 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,518 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,804 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,230 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,702 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,454 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,020 | 6.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,498 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,957 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 17 | #3,820 | 8.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,854 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,055 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,911 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,126 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,997 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,601 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,748 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 11 | #4,000 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,161 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,972 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,319 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,016 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,871 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,318 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,082 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,356 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,859 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,860 | 5.7 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,937 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,802 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kamel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kamel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kamel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kamel, and how old are they?
An estimated 582 Americans named Kamel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,173 people named Kamel (60 women and girls, 1,113 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 521 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,816 babies since 1880, Kamel is the third most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 97 babies (9.3%), again the third 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 Kamel
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 Kamel and names like it
- Compare Kamel and KamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kamel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kamel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.