Jamal

Where Jamal comes from

From Arabic جَمَال (jamāl, “beauty”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Jamal
  • Arabic
Jamal through the years
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #3,173 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Jamal Khashoggi born
    Saudi journalist
  3. 1993
    Peak, #233
    1,245 babies named Jamal, the most in any year.
  4. 2003
    Jamal Musiala born
    German footballer
  5. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #442.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Jamal Khashoggi · Saudi journalist, 1958–2018
  • Jamal Musiala · German footballer, born 2003
  • Jamal al-Din al-Afghani · Political activist and Islamic ideologist, 1838–1897
  • Jamal Murray · Canadian basketball player, born 1997
  • Jamal Crawford · American basketball player, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.