Jamal

Where Jamal comes from

From Arabic جَمَال (jamāl, “beauty”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Jamal
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #3,173 among boys, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.