Cemal
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cemal is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. Yüz güzelliği, güzellik.
- TRTürkiye1 in 519◐
- CYCyprus1 in 570
- SYSyria1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈813 ●
- Sources
- 115 ●
- 1 in 43K ◐
across 6 countries
1.1M records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
1. Yüz güzelliği, güzellik. 2. Güzel yüz.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #63 | 1,042,350 | 1M rec. | — | #99 | Cemal | 106 |
| SY Syria | #106 | 29,050 | 31K rec. | — | — | Cemal | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #65 | 3,996 | 5K rec. | — | — | Cemal | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,203 | 588 rec. | — | — | Cemal | 54 |
| BE Belgium | — | 807 | 800 rec. | — | 2 | Cemal | 20 |
| AF Afghanistan | #337 | 404 | 412 rec. | — | — | Cemal | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 398 | 338 rec. | — | 20 | Cemal | 19 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 382 | 416 rec. | — | — | Cemal | 6 |
| US United States | — | 226 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 226 | Cemal | 115 |
| GE Georgia | — | 210 | 211 rec. | — | — | Cemal | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 191 | 1K rec. | 1 in 90K | 191 | Cemal | 33 |
| SE Sweden | — | 138 | 120 rec. | 1 in 74K | 138 | — | 14 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish1.1M94%
- Arabic15K1%
- German14K1%
- English7K1%
- Spanish6.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 1,054,981 | 94% |
| Arabic | 15,234 | 1% |
| German | 13,846 | 1% |
| English | 7,038 | 1% |
| Spanish | 6,749 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 64 |
| 2000 | 65 |
| 2001 | 67 |
| 2002 | 67 |
| 2003 | 67 |
| 2004 | 66 |
| 2005 | 68 |
| 2006 | 71 |
| 2007 | 76 |
| 2008 | 81 |
| 2009 | 83 |
| 2010 | 86 |
| 2011 | 89 |
| 2012 | 91 |
| 2013 | 91 |
| 2014 | 91 |
| 2015 | 94 |
| 2016 | 99 |
| 2017 | 101 |
| 2018 | 105 |
| 2019 | 108 |
| 2020 | 108 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jamal al-Din al-Afghanib. 1838AFnot in their usual namePolitical activist and Islamic ideologist (1838–1897)
- Cemal Gürselb. 1895TR4th President of the Republic of Turkey (1895–1966)
- Gamal Abdel Nasserb. 1918EGnot in their usual namePresident of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandisb. 1954IQnot in their usual nameIraqi politician and Army commander (1954-2020)
- Jamal Khashoggib. 1958SAnot in their usual nameSaudi journalist (1958–2018)
- Gamal Mubarakb. 1963EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian politician
- Tracy Morganb. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
- Jamal Crawfordb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Jamal Murrayb. 1997CAnot in their usual nameCanadian basketball player (born 1997)
- Jamal Musialab. 2003DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer (born 2003)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 132 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Cemal?
- We estimate roughly 813 people bear Cemal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Cemal have the most bearers?
- Cemal is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled cemal.
- How common is Cemal compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Cemal is the 63rd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Cemal a male or female name?
- Cemal is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Cemal mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Yüz güzelliği, güzellik.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cemal” — the 63rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.