Kamal

Spellings & scripts●

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 8 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◐

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

• a separate given name720K records spelled Kamal7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Morocco

  Also written Kamāl, Kämal, Kamâl, Kâmal, Kamãl

• English given name681K records spelled Kamal46 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Algeria, Bangladesh, United States, India

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Kamāl, Kämäľ, Kámal, Kämâl, Kåmål

• Indonesian given name126K records spelled Kamal14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Kamal', 'Kamal, Kãmál, Kãmal, Kāmal

• Spanish given name39K records spelled Kamal61 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, India, United States, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Kàmàl, Kamāl, Kãmål, Ķamal, Kåmål

• Turkish given name21K records spelled Kamal17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Azerbaijan, Syria

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

  Also written Kãmãl, Kâmâl, Kàmàl, Kamâl, Kãmâl

75 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●

Kamal 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.

• Hindu name found among people from Sind, Pakistan, which goes back to the personal name of an ancestor, derived from Sanskrit kamala ‘lotus’. The personal name is common in India, and has become a family name in the U.S. among South Indians.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• from a personal name based on Arabic kamal ‘perfection’, ‘integrity’. It is found in compound names such as Kamal ud-DTn ‘perfection of religion’ .

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• 1Sanskrit: ‘pink’, also a name for the lotus. 2 Muslim name: see Arabic supplement.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Arabic, perfection, completion, integrity

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Swedish, Kamal är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’fullkomlighet’. Kamal har samma ursprung som → Kamil. Den turkiska formen är → Kemal.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 107 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisīb. 1265IRPersian mathematician
• Kamal Jumblattb. 1917LBLebanese politician (1917-1977)
• Kamal Narain Singhb. 1926IN22nd Chief Justice of India
• Casey Kasemb. 1932USnot in their usual nameAmerican voice actor (1932–2014)
• Kamal Ganzourib. 1933EGformer Egyptian Prime minister (1933-2021)
• Kamal Hassan Alib. 1933EGEgyptian politician and military officer (1933-1993)
• Kamal Hossainb. 1937BDBengali lawyer and politician (born 1937)
• Kamal Kharazib. 1944IRIranian academic and politician
• Kamal Nathb. 1946INIndian politician
• Kamal Hassanb. 1954INIndian actor, activist and joker (born 1954 )

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 · 775 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kamal?

We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Kamal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Kamal have the most bearers?

Kamal is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kamal.

How common is Kamal compared with other names?

In India, Kamal is the 145th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Kamal a male or female name?

Kamal 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 Kamal mean?

Recorded meaning: ‘perfection, completeness’; Arabic-derived given name.