Djamel
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Djamel is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Origine arabe, signifie « le beau ».
- DZAlgeria1 in 6.6K◐
- FRFrance1 in 9.4K
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.0K ●
- Sources
- 270 ●
- 1 in 9.4K ◐
across 9 countries
47K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Origine arabe, signifie « le beau ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #779 | 7,180 | 40K rec. | 1 in 9.4K | 7.2K | Djamel | 270 |
| DZ Algeria | #149 | 3,661 | 3.6K rec. | — | listed | Djamel | 44 |
| RO Romania | #829 | 617 | 7 rec. | — | — | Djamel | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 521 | 435 rec. | 1 in 96K | 521 | Djamel | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 382 | 321 rec. | — | — | Djamel | 34 |
| DE Germany | — | 357 | 361 rec. | — | — | Djamel | 60 |
| BE Belgium | — | 330 | 307 rec. | — | — | Djamel | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 201 | 189 rec. | — | 7 | Djamel | 24 |
| US United States | — | 172 | 1K rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 172 | Djamel | 60 |
| AU Australia | — | 89 | 88 rec. | — | — | Djamel | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 61 | 10 rec. | — | 58 | Djamel | 6 |
| YT Mayotte | #151 | 60 | 2 rec. | — | 5 | Djamel | 3 |
Roughly 7.2K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 9.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French74K75%
- Arabic14K15%
- Spanish2.6K3%
- English2.1K2%
- Portuguese1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 73,918 | 75% |
| Arabic | 14,287 | 15% |
| Spanish | 2,610 | 3% |
| English | 2,108 | 2% |
| Portuguese | 1,081 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Djamel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Arabic Jamāl, meaning ‘beauty’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 23 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 24 |
| 2002 | 24 |
| 2003 | 24 |
| 2004 | 25 |
| 2005 | 27 |
| 2006 | 29 |
| 2007 | 31 |
| 2008 | 34 |
| 2009 | 35 |
| 2010 | 38 |
| 2011 | 36 |
| 2012 | 37 |
| 2013 | 37 |
| 2014 | 37 |
| 2015 | 40 |
| 2016 | 39 |
| 2017 | 38 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 39 |
| 2020 | 39 |
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●
- Djamel Allamb. 1947DZAlgerian singer
- Djamel Zidaneb. 1955DZAlgerian footballer
- Djamel Menadb. 1960DZAlgerian association football player (1960–2025)
- Djamel Haimoudib. 1970DZfootball referee
- Djamel Bourasb. 1971FRFrench judoka
- Djamel Belmadib. 1976FRAlgerian and French football player and manager
- Djamel Bensalahb. 1976FRFrench actor and director
- Djamel Mesbahb. 1984DZAlgerian association football player
- Djamel Abdounb. 1986FRAlgerian-French footballer (born 1986)
- Djameleddine Benlamrib. 1989DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian footballer
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 35 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 · 86 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Djamel?
- We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Djamel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Djamel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 7.2 thousand people bear Djamel in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled djamel.
- How common is Djamel compared with other names?
- In France, Djamel is the 779th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Djamel a male or female name?
- Djamel 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 Djamel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origine arabe, signifie « le beau ».
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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, “Djamel” — the 779th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.