Jamal
Jamal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 175 births. Its best rank was 233rd, in 1993.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1750.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19931,246 births
- Best rank
- #233in 1993
- Since 1946
- 33,063people given the name
The story in the numbers
33,063 boys have been named Jamal in the United States since 1946, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 1,246 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 31%. It has spent 54 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jamal | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 11 | |
| 1950s | 91 | |
| 1960s | 558 | |
| 1970s | 4,691 | |
| 1980s | 7,187 | |
| 1990s | 10,265 | |
| 2000s | 5,897 | |
| 2010s | 3,265 | |
| 2020s | 1,098 |
In 1993, its biggest year
Jamal was the 233rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1993 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Jamal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Montrealpeak 1990
- Koreypeak 1990
- Delvonpeak 1994
- Naderpeak 1990
- Aarronpeak 1992
- Shainepeak 1987
- Samerpeak 1994
- Markeithpeak 1990
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.