Jamal

Jamal is the 9,986th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,084 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 96,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,084
Rank: 9,986th
How common: 1 in 96,900
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Jamal described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 52.7%
White, not Hispanic 26.7%
Black, not Hispanic 13.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Jamal

Ahmad Jamal (1930–2023)American jazz pianist
Aminat Yusuf Jamal (born 1997)Bahraini athlete

People named Jamal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Jamal

Also a first name

Jamal has been given to 33,501 American babies as a first name since 1946, peaking in 1993. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.