girls:
45 births since 1976
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
8.5k births since 1970
#1279 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.5k births since 1970
#2930 (62nd percentile)
The name Jamaal is the #2,930 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,527 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 62.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,279 (72.1% percentile) for all time with 8,482 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 1976.
Jamaal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for boys and 1976 for girls).
The name Jamaal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jamaal reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 59.7% percentile (ranked #279) with 379 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 379 births per million (ranked 59.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jamaal ranks #878 for boys (3.6% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 5.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jamaal reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jamaal".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jamaal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jamaal is pronounced as juh-MAHL, which has 2 syllables.
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