Jamel
Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784 · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to boys 96.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1983 · 319 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,225since 1950
Jamel over time
Rank among boys' names. Jamel has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,765 | 46 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,789 | 46 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,441 | 55 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,243 | 64 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,853 | 83 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,815 | 82 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,917 | 77 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,744 | 88 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,554 | 105 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,575 | 104 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,416 | 121 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,551 | 103 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,255 | 139 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,249 | 141 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,183 | 149 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,082 | 178 | |
| 2009 | — | #973 | 205 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,041 | 182 | |
| 2007 | — | #959 | 205 | |
| 2006 | — | #958 | 194 | |
| 2005 | — | #879 | 207 | |
| 2004 | — | #930 | 182 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #861 | 200 |
| 2002 | — | #790 | 218 | |
| 2001 | — | #845 | 191 | |
| 2000 | — | #801 | 201 | |
| 1999 | — | #706 | 237 | |
| 1998 | — | #751 | 214 | |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #747 | 201 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #667 | 247 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #702 | 227 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #597 | 301 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #615 | 287 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #584 | 307 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #546 | 345 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #519 | 359 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #514 | 347 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #485 | 360 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | #486 | 331 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #481 | 328 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 | #499 | 303 |
| 1984 | #5,539 | 12 | #500 | 287 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | #467 | 319 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 | #505 | 283 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #549 | 238 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 | #510 | 276 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 | #505 | 273 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #472 | 295 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | #542 | 235 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 | #532 | 230 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 | #593 | 185 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #655 | 151 |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 | #683 | 136 |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 | #836 | 93 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #920 | 78 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 | #1,374 | 37 |
| 1969 | #3,958 | 13 | #1,136 | 47 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #1,788 | 20 |
| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | #2,242 | 13 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #2,627 | 10 |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | #2,854 | 9 |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jamel! It came in at #3,681, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1960, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Jamel is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#368 · 1 in 1,973
- Mississippi#424 · 1 in 2,129
- Maryland#492 · 1 in 3,195
- New York#557 · 1 in 3,989
- Minnesota#571 · 1 in 4,172
Best ever in a state: #114 in New York, 1983.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #368 | 11 | 1 in 1,973 |
| Mississippi | #424 | 7 | 1 in 2,129 |
| Maryland | #492 | 9 | 1 in 3,195 |
| New York | #557 | 27 | 1 in 3,989 |
| Minnesota | #571 | 7 | 1 in 4,172 |
| Alabama | #595 | 6 | 1 in 4,027 |
| New Jersey | #598 | 10 | 1 in 4,461 |
| North Carolina | #627 | 12 | 1 in 4,486 |
| Virginia | #631 | 9 | 1 in 4,684 |
| Georgia | #658 | 13 | 1 in 4,540 |
| Pennsylvania | #783 | 9 | 1 in 6,902 |
| Louisiana | #799 | 5 | 1 in 5,008 |
| Tennessee | #854 | 5 | 1 in 7,264 |
| Ohio | #862 | 8 | 1 in 7,832 |
| Florida | #884 | 13 | 1 in 7,331 |
| Michigan | #920 | 6 | 1 in 8,226 |
| Illinois | #1,089 | 7 | 1 in 10,364 |
| Texas | #1,546 | 9 | 1 in 20,718 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jamel
- 24 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #2,765)
- 950 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #2,765)
- 1,349 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #2,765)
- Biggest jump: 454 spots in 1971 (#1,374 → #920)
- Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2010 (#973 → #1,082)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1983 at #467 (319 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 28 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1971–2007
- Highest: 1 in 5,317 boys born in 1988 were named Jamel (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #467 in 1983, was only 1 in 5,619 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.4% of all boys named Jamel (3,072) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 15 | #3,681 (1950) | #3,870 |
| 1960s | 134 | #1,136 (1969) | #2,745 |
| 1970s | 1,713 | #472 (1978) | #711 |
| 1980s | 3,072 | #467 (1983) | #500 |
| 1990s | 2,725 | #519 (1990) | #643 |
| 2000s | 1,985 | #790 (2002) | #904 |
| 2010s | 1,205 | #1,082 (2010) | #1,453 |
| 2020s | 376 | #1,815 (2020) | #2,318 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jamel in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 9,676 of them was named Jamel, which outranked 93.3% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).