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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 365,429 of them was named Jamel, which outranked 14.4% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,655 names at #15,784; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 9,877 of them was named Jamel, which outranked 93.3% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).