Jalal
The boy's name Jalal has been in the national records since 1972, with 755 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 730 Jalals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Jalal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 755
- Estimated living today
- 730
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 3,732nd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,857th
- First recorded
- 1972
How old the living Jalals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 755 babies given the name since 1972, about 730 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jalals
- Jalal Talabani (1933–2017)Iraqi politician
- Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu (1199–1231)Ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire
- Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji (1220–1296)12th Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate and 1st from the Khalji dynasty
- Jalal Hosseini (born 1982)Iranian association football player
- Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923–1969)writer, thinker, and social and political critic
- Jalal Hasan (born 1991)Iraqi footballer
- Salladin Jalal al-Din Sultan ibn Tokhtamysh (1380–1413)Khan of the Golden Horde
- Jalal Jayed (born 1987)Moroccan association football referee
People named Jalal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jalal is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular boys’ names the year Jalal peaked:
Jalal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Jalal | 680 | 531st |
| England and Wales boys | Jalal | 197 | 2,088th |
| Switzerland boys | Jalal | 11 | 1,916th |
| Belgium boys | Jalal | 5 | 1,016th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jalal: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Jalal | 6 | 0.000% | 1,469th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Jalal | 5 | 0.001% | 598th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Jalal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jalal | 23 | 49 |
| Finland girls | Jalal | — | 17 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jalal lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 890 men called Jalal were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Jalal | 10 | 0.237 | 422 |
| Melilla | Jalal | 8 | 0.183 | 556 |
| AlmerÃa | Jalal | 42 | 0.107 | 707 |
| Murcia | Jalal | 70 | 0.088 | 739 |
| Lleida | Jalal | 19 | 0.081 | 930 |
| Girona | Jalal | 33 | 0.079 | 884 |
Listed in 34 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 18 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jalal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.