Amál

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Amál is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic أمل (“hope”).

  • TNTunisia≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 270
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 300

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Amál itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈330,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
319 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 186 (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
AmálLatin(measured from records)
АмальCyrillic(measured from records)
ΑμαλGreek(measured from records)
ამალGeorgian(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Amal in EG Egypt, US United States, MA Morocco and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Borrowed from Arabic أمل (“hope”).

Cited for this meaning 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names
  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Amál counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Amál is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#84≈330,000 est.≈1 in 349—Amal127
MA Morocco#52≈140,000 est.≈1 in 274—Amal128
IN India—≈130,000 est.≈1 in 11K71Amal117
SA Saudi Arabia#51≈120,000 est.≈1 in 301—Amal156
TN Tunisia#21≈66,000 est.≈1 in 1861.7KAmal68
AE United Arab Emirates#27≈23,000 est.≈1 in 474—Amal139
US United States—9,0151 in 37K8.3KAmal319

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Amál is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Hungary, United States, Syria

    Also written Amal, Ámâl, Ãmãl, Âmâl, Amàl

  • Indonesian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Morocco

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Amal, A'Mal, 'Amal, Amàl, Ãmâl

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Amál is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In phl, action

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Amál mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Arabic أمل (“hope”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 6 other sources.
Is Amál a male or female name?
Amál is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Amál have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 334 thousand people named Amál in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amal.
How common is the name Amál?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,015 people named Amál in 2020, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
How common is Amál compared with other names?
In Egypt, Amál is the 84th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Amál” — the 84th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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