Jamal
Last seen for girls in 1999 at #12,688 · #1,196 for boys in 2025, 169 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 1,245 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 33,235since 1946
Jamal over time
Rank among boys' names. Jamal has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,196 | 169 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,181 | 175 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,034 | 211 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,084 | 201 | |
| 2021 | — | #868 | 267 | |
| 2020 | — | #910 | 245 | |
| 2019 | — | #859 | 258 | |
| 2018 | — | #768 | 305 | |
| 2017 | — | #761 | 308 | |
| 2016 | — | #702 | 353 | |
| 2015 | — | #739 | 330 | |
| 2014 | — | #766 | 306 | |
| 2013 | — | #751 | 303 | |
| 2012 | — | #690 | 345 | |
| 2011 | — | #673 | 351 | |
| 2010 | — | #609 | 407 | |
| 2009 | — | #613 | 410 | |
| 2008 | — | #567 | 456 | |
| 2007 | — | #532 | 483 | |
| 2006 | — | #504 | 514 | |
| 2005 | — | #463 | 553 | |
| 2004 | — | #442 | 589 | |
| 2003 | — | #398 | 655 | |
| 2002 | — | #363 | 726 | |
| 2001 | — | #346 | 786 | |
| 2000 | — | #365 | 726 | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #335 | 798 |
| 1998 | — | #372 | 689 | |
| 1997 | — | #317 | 835 | |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 | #282 | 988 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #266 | 1,059 |
| 1994 | — | #240 | 1,231 | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #233 | 1,245 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #240 | 1,196 |
| 1991 | — | #249 | 1,112 | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #247 | 1,112 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | #239 | 1,104 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | #237 | 1,020 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #237 | 988 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #269 | 807 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #323 | 620 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | #353 | 517 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #374 | 466 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | #335 | 561 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #343 | 523 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #327 | 581 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | #343 | 526 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #317 | 553 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #319 | 583 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 | #320 | 552 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | #357 | 469 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #359 | 458 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #376 | 418 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | #377 | 434 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | #398 | 414 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | #477 | 284 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #479 | 255 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #788 | 88 |
| 1967 | — | #1,181 | 40 | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | #1,237 | 37 |
| 1965 | — | #1,669 | 22 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,655 | 23 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,548 | 26 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,625 | 24 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,686 | 23 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,812 | 20 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,501 | 28 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,896 | 18 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,093 | 15 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,216 | 7 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jamal! It came in at #3,173, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1949, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jamal is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#48 · 1 in 200
- Maryland#87 · 1 in 502
- Louisiana#100 · 1 in 511
- South Carolina#129 · 1 in 715
- Virginia#130 · 1 in 876
Best ever in a state: #31 in District of Columbia, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #48 | 40 | 1 in 200 |
| Maryland | #87 | 58 | 1 in 502 |
| Louisiana | #100 | 63 | 1 in 511 |
| South Carolina | #129 | 30 | 1 in 715 |
| Virginia | #130 | 45 | 1 in 876 |
| Georgia | #145 | 54 | 1 in 844 |
| North Carolina | #172 | 36 | 1 in 1,153 |
| Mississippi | #173 | 17 | 1 in 963 |
| Pennsylvania | #177 | 51 | 1 in 1,521 |
| New Jersey | #178 | 37 | 1 in 1,349 |
| Alabama | #180 | 23 | 1 in 1,101 |
| New York | #184 | 98 | 1 in 1,282 |
| Massachusetts | #216 | 18 | 1 in 2,267 |
| Florida | #230 | 51 | 1 in 1,559 |
| Michigan | #232 | 31 | 1 in 2,085 |
| Illinois | #235 | 49 | 1 in 1,667 |
| Tennessee | #237 | 16 | 1 in 2,015 |
| Ohio | #240 | 30 | 1 in 2,543 |
| Connecticut | #261 | 8 | 1 in 2,670 |
| Minnesota | #279 | 8 | 1 in 3,811 |
| Arkansas | #291 | 6 | 1 in 2,493 |
| California | #310 | 97 | 1 in 2,461 |
| Colorado | #318 | 8 | 1 in 3,071 |
| Missouri | #345 | 9 | 1 in 3,971 |
| Wisconsin | #351 | 7 | 1 in 4,629 |
| Texas | #352 | 51 | 1 in 2,812 |
| Oklahoma | #365 | 6 | 1 in 3,464 |
| Indiana | #401 | 7 | 1 in 5,276 |
| Washington | #510 | 5 | 1 in 6,344 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jamal
- 15 spots since 2024 (#1,181 → #1,196)
- 286 spots since 2020 (#910 → #1,196)
- 457 spots since 2015 (#739 → #1,196)
- Biggest jump: 393 spots in 1968 (#1,181 → #788)
- Biggest drop: 216 spots in 2022 (#868 → #1,084)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1993 at #233 (1,245 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 54 yrs · run 1968–2021
- Highest: 1 in 1,569 boys born in 1994 were named Jamal (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,107 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #233 in 1993, was only 1 in 1,575 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.9% of all boys named Jamal (10,265) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 11 | #3,173 (1946) | #3,453 |
| 1950s | 91 | #1,501 (1959) | #2,818 |
| 1960s | 558 | #479 (1969) | #1,368 |
| 1970s | 4,691 | #317 (1978) | #364 |
| 1980s | 7,187 | #237 (1988) | #304 |
| 1990s | 10,265 | #233 (1993) | #278 |
| 2000s | 5,898 | #346 (2001) | #459 |
| 2010s | 3,266 | #609 (2010) | #732 |
| 2020s | 1,268 | #868 (2021) | #1,046 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jamal in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 217,329 of them was named Jamal, which outranked 39.8% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,353Zana9
- #7,353Zanetta9
- #7,353Zeina9
- #7,987Jamal8
- #7,987Aarin8
- #7,987Adrena8
- #7,987Africa8
- #8,778Aarti7
- #8,778Aasha7
- #8,778Abilene7
Tied with 790 names at #7,987; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 1,890 of them was named Jamal, which outranked 97.1% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).