Jamel
Jamel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 45 births. Its best rank was 467th, in 1983.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 450.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1988360 births
- Best rank
- #467in 1983
- Since 1950
- 11,545people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,178 boys have been named Jamel in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 360 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1980s alone account for 27%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 367 girls have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1988, its biggest year
Jamel was the 485th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1988 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Jamel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ryanpeak 1985
- Antwonpeak 1990
- Sharodpeak 1990
- Jamellpeak 1989
- Antwaunpeak 1986
- Dontapeak 1991
- Ramelpeak 1985
- Antwanpeak 1980
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.