Kamal
Last seen for girls in 1997 at #8,334 · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1979 · 66 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,076since 1946
Kamal over time
Rank among boys' names. Kamal has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #2,884 | 43 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,595 | 51 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,805 | 45 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,517 | 54 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,373 | 57 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,505 | 51 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,228 | 62 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,167 | 64 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,417 | 53 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,437 | 52 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,486 | 50 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,705 | 44 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,299 | 55 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,380 | 53 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,232 | 58 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,986 | 69 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,626 | 97 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,207 | 60 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,972 | 71 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,248 | 56 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,691 | 79 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,857 | 66 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,906 | 61 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,459 | 87 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,400 | 89 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,429 | 86 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,517 | 74 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,719 | 59 | |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #1,509 | 69 |
| 1996 | — | #1,334 | 81 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,380 | 73 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,434 | 67 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,444 | 65 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,621 | 54 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #1,528 | 57 |
| 1990 | — | #1,702 | 47 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,858 | 40 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,879 | 35 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,534 | 46 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,662 | 38 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,614 | 39 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,481 | 42 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,490 | 41 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,310 | 51 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,520 | 40 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,214 | 57 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #1,100 | 66 |
| 1978 | — | #1,134 | 60 | |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | #1,127 | 59 |
| 1976 | — | #1,572 | 34 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,835 | 26 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,618 | 30 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,548 | 31 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,989 | 20 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Kamal! It came in at #3,525, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1957, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kamal
- 289 spots since 2024 (#2,595 → #2,884)
- 379 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #2,884)
- 398 spots since 2015 (#2,486 → #2,884)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1979 at #1,100 (66 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,449 boys born in 2009 were named Kamal (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,100 in 1979, was only 1 in 26,084 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.4% of all boys named Kamal (752) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,525 (1946) | #3,525 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,559 (1958) | #3,559 |
| 1960s | 27 | #2,861 (1969) | #3,553 |
| 1970s | 350 | #1,100 (1979) | #1,846 |
| 1980s | 429 | #1,214 (1980) | #1,556 |
| 1990s | 646 | #1,334 (1996) | #1,519 |
| 2000s | 752 | #1,400 (2001) | #1,780 |
| 2010s | 560 | #1,986 (2010) | #2,334 |
| 2020s | 301 | #2,373 (2021) | #2,613 |
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.
Kamal in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 321,054 of them was named Kamal, which outranked 14.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,762 names at #10,210; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 26,084 of them was named Kamal, which outranked 84.4% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,089Nikolaus67
- #1,089Rasheen67
- #1,089Rosendo67
- #1,100Kamal66
- #1,100Cristian66
- #1,100Jelani66
- #1,100Leigh66
- #1,108Darrius65
- #1,108Detrick65
- #1,108Luciano65
Tied with 7 names at #1,100; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.