Meaning and history
The name Jamal means “beauty” in Arabic and comes from the root جمل (jamala), meaning “to be beautiful.”
20062006: 514 births, rank #504
2007: 483 births, rank #532
2008: 456 births, rank #567
2009: 410 births, rank #613
2010: 407 births, rank #609
20112011: 351 births, rank #673
2012: 345 births, rank #690
2013: 303 births, rank #751
2014: 306 births, rank #766
2015: 330 births, rank #739
20162016: 353 births, rank #702
2017: 308 births, rank #761
2018: 305 births, rank #768
2019: 258 births, rank #859
2020: 245 births, rank #910
20212021: 267 births, rank #868
2022: 201 births, rank #1,084
2023: 211 births, rank #1,034
2024: 175 births, rank #1,181
20252025: 169 births, rank #1,196
Jamal rose from #912 to #868 for boys between 2020 and 2021. Its highest annual birth count came in 1993, with 1,245 births.