Kamal
About 3,101 American babies have been named Kamal since 1946, most of them around 2009. In 2025 it ranked 2,884th. About 3,000 Kamals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kamal boys named Kamal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,101
- Estimated living today
- 3,000
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 1,626th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,884th
- First recorded
- 1946
- Girls / boys
- 25 / 3,076
How old the living Kamals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,101 babies given the name since 1946, about 3,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 7 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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 Kamals
- Kamal Haasan (born 1954)Indian actor, activist and joker
- Kamal Jumblatt (1917–1977)Lebanese politician
- Kamal Ganzouri (1933–2021)former Egyptian Prime minister
- Kamal Ranadive (1917–2001)Indian biologist
- Kamal Miller (born 1997)Canadian soccer player
- Sharath Kamal (born 1982)Indian table tennis player
- Kamal Kharazi (1944–2026)Iranian academic and politician
- Kamal Nath (born 1946)Indian politician
People named Kamal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kamal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kamal is most concentrated in New Jersey (4.1×), New York (3.7×), Florida (2.7×), Maryland (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular boys’ names the year Kamal peaked:
Kamal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Kamal | 2,975 | 271st |
| England and Wales boys | Kamal | 693 | 731st |
| Norway boys | Kamal | 140 | 354th |
| Belgium boys | Kamal | 121 | 615th |
| Switzerland boys | Kamal | 22 | 1,545th |
| Ireland boys | Kamal | 14 | 423rd |
| Poland boys | Kamal | 4 birth registrations | 736th |
| Scotland boys | Kamal | 4 | 359th |
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.
Kamal: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Kamal | 13 | 0.001% | 806th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Kamal | 9 | 0.002% | 434th |
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.
Kamal: rank by region
In 2013, Kamal was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Kamal | 342 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kamal 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 | Kamal | 74 | 128 |
| Finland girls | Kamal | — | 35 |
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 Kamal lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,842 men called Kamal 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Kamal | 120 | 2.742 | 79 |
| Ceuta | Kamal | 45 | 1.068 | 158 |
| AlmerÃa | Kamal | 199 | 0.506 | 232 |
| Murcia | Kamal | 317 | 0.399 | 248 |
| Lleida | Kamal | 80 | 0.340 | 319 |
| Girona | Kamal | 141 | 0.339 | 309 |
Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 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
Kamal 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.