girls:
367 births since 1961
#5349 (6th percentile)
boys:
11.1k births since 1950
#1096 (76th percentile)
overall:
11.5k births since 1950
#2457 (68th percentile)
The name Jamel is the #2,457 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,499 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 68.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,096 (76.1% percentile) for all time with 11,132 births since 1950. For girls, it ranks #5,349 (6.4% percentile) for all time with 367 births since 1961.
Jamel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for boys and 1961 for girls). Birth data for Jamel is available in 67 out of the 74 years between 1950 and 2023 (67 years for boys and 35 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jamel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jamel reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 40.4% percentile (ranked #433) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 180 births per million (ranked 40.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jamel ranks #861 for boys (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 16.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jamel reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #772) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jamel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jamel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Jamel is pronounced as juh-MEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAY-mehl, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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