Jamel
Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784 · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to boys 96.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 319 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,225since 1950
Jamel over time
Rank among boys' names. Jamel has never cracked the top 400 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 | — | #2,765 | 46 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,789 | 46 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,441 | 55 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,243 | 64 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,853 | 83 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,815 | 82 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,917 | 77 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,744 | 88 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,554 | 105 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,575 | 104 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,416 | 121 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,551 | 103 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,255 | 139 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,249 | 141 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,183 | 149 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,082 | 178 | |
| 2009 | — | #973 | 205 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,041 | 182 | |
| 2007 | — | #959 | 205 | |
| 2006 | — | #958 | 194 | |
| 2005 | — | #879 | 207 | |
| 2004 | — | #930 | 182 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #861 | 200 |
| 2002 | — | #790 | 218 | |
| 2001 | — | #845 | 191 | |
| 2000 | — | #801 | 201 | |
| 1999 | — | #706 | 237 | |
| 1998 | — | #751 | 214 | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #747 | 201 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #667 | 247 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #702 | 227 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #597 | 301 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #615 | 287 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #584 | 307 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #546 | 345 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #519 | 359 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #514 | 347 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #485 | 360 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | #486 | 331 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #481 | 328 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | #499 | 303 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #500 | 287 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | #467 | 319 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | #505 | 283 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #549 | 238 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 | #510 | 276 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 | #505 | 273 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #472 | 295 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #542 | 235 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | #532 | 230 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | #593 | 185 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #655 | 151 |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | #683 | 136 |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | #836 | 93 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #920 | 78 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 | #1,374 | 37 |
| 1969 | #3,958 | 13 | #1,136 | 47 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #1,788 | 20 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | #2,242 | 13 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jamel! It came in at #3,681, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1960, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jamel is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#280 · 1 in 1,912
- New York#328 · 1 in 2,328
- Alabama#343 · 1 in 2,278
- Virginia#385 · 1 in 3,001
- Missouri#419 · 1 in 3,833
Best ever in a state: #114 in New York, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #280 | 24 | 1 in 1,912 |
| New York | #328 | 51 | 1 in 2,328 |
| Alabama | #343 | 11 | 1 in 2,278 |
| Virginia | #385 | 13 | 1 in 3,001 |
| Missouri | #419 | 9 | 1 in 3,833 |
| Louisiana | #457 | 9 | 1 in 2,965 |
| Georgia | #469 | 14 | 1 in 3,461 |
| South Carolina | #494 | 5 | 1 in 3,931 |
| Ohio | #499 | 12 | 1 in 5,860 |
| Illinois | #584 | 15 | 1 in 5,396 |
| New Jersey | #618 | 7 | 1 in 6,950 |
| Florida | #649 | 13 | 1 in 6,530 |
| Pennsylvania | #832 | 5 | 1 in 13,669 |
| California | #1,166 | 12 | 1 in 21,129 |
| Texas | #1,190 | 8 | 1 in 19,481 |
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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 Jamel
- 24 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #2,765)
- 950 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #2,765)
- 1,349 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #2,765)
- Biggest jump: 454 spots in 1971 (#1,374 → #920)
- Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2010 (#973 → #1,082)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1983 at #467 (319 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 28 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1971–2007
- Highest: 1 in 5,317 boys born in 1988 were named Jamel (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #467 in 1983, was only 1 in 5,619 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.4% of all boys named Jamel (3,072) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 15 | #3,681 (1950) | #3,870 |
| 1960s | 134 | #1,136 (1969) | #2,745 |
| 1970s | 1,713 | #472 (1978) | #711 |
| 1980s | 3,072 | #467 (1983) | #500 |
| 1990s | 2,725 | #519 (1990) | #643 |
| 2000s | 1,985 | #790 (2002) | #904 |
| 2010s | 1,205 | #1,082 (2010) | #1,453 |
| 2020s | 376 | #1,815 (2020) | #2,318 |
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.
Jamel in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 350,601 of them was named Jamel, which outranked 14.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 7,669 of them was named Jamel, which outranked 93.7% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).