girls:
25 births since 1977
#5691 (0th percentile)
boys:
3k births since 1946
#2300 (50th percentile)
overall:
3k births since 1946
#4953 (36th percentile)
The name Kamal is the #4,953 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,003 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 36.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 36.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,300 (49.8% percentile) for all time with 2,978 births since 1946. For girls, it ranks #5,691 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 1977.
Kamal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (1946 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Kamal is available in 60 out of the 78 years between 1946 and 2023 (60 years for boys and 4 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 Kamal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kamal reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 10.2% percentile (ranked #809) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 46 births per million (ranked 10.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kamal ranks #873 for boys (4.2% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 51.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kamal reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #858) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kamal".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Kamal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.8% confident that Kamal is pronounced as kuh-MAHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-MAHL, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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