Jamal

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Джамал in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 1 more and Ჯამალ in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jamal is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name129K records spelled Jamal79 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Ja'Mal, Jamâl, Jàmàl, Jamāl, Jamàl

• a separate given name119K records spelled Jamal6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Morocco

  Also written Jamāl, Jamâl, Jãmal, Jamal̄, J̌amāl

• Turkish given name9.1K records spelled Jamal9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Iraq, Turkmenistan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

  Also written Jâmâl, Jämăl, Jāmāľ, Jámál, Jämāl

• Danish given name5.5K records spelled Jamal21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Morocco

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Jamál, Jåmäl, Jàmål, Jãmãl, Jẳmẳl

• Albanian given name2.3K records spelled Jamal2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Jâmãl

66 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jamal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• from a personal name based on Arabic Jamal ‘beauty’, ‘grace’. This name is also found in compounds such as Jamal ud-Dln ‘Beauty of Religion’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Arabic, Beauty

  as a name·The book of African names

• In Swedish, Jamal är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’skönhet’. Det har samma rot som → Jamil och → Jamila.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Arabic, beauty, grace

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In French, De l’arabe Jamāl, « beauté, élégance ».

  as a name·Le 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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 76 years between 1946–2025. 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. 1838AFPolitical activist and Islamic ideologist (1838–1897)
• 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. 1958SASaudi journalist (1958–2018)
• Tracy Morganb. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
• Jamal Woolardb. 1975USAmerican actor and musician
• Shyneb. 1978BZnot in their usual nameBelizean rapper and politician
• Jamal Crawfordb. 1980USAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
• Jamal Murrayb. 1997CACanadian basketball player (born 1997)
• Jamal Musialab. 2003DEGerman 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 750 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jamal?

We estimate roughly 43 thousand people bear Jamal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Jamal have the most bearers?

Jamal is most frequently recorded in Algeria, where it is most often spelled jamal.

How common is Jamal compared with other names?

In Algeria, Jamal is the 18th most common given name of 30,102 given names recorded there.

Is Jamal a male or female name?

Jamal 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 Jamal mean?

Recorded meaning: beauty, grace (see surat al-Nahl 16:6).