Kèmal

given name · Latin script

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

Kèmal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish كمال, from Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection, maturity”).

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 7.4K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 14K
  • HRCroatia1 in 20K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,005 people, 2020

Sources
187 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kemal in US United States.

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)

Derivation of Kèmal: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Kèmal
  1. Ottoman Turkishكمال(measured from records)
  2. Arabicكَمَالkamāl“perfection, maturity”(measured from records)

From Ottoman Turkish كمال, from Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection, maturity”).

Sources 4

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kèmal 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 Kèmal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0051 in 331K1KKemal41
SE Sweden7141 in 14K714—4
SI Slovenia2851 in 7.4K285—2
DK Denmark2701 in 22K270——
PL Poland2681 in 143K268——
HR Croatia2141 in 20K214——
GY Guyana161 in 47K16——

1,005 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

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

  • Turkish given name76 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Israel, Syria, Russia

    Languages: Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic

    Also written Kemal, כמאל, כאמל, Кемал, Кемаль

  • German given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Kemal, Kèmàl, Kemâl, K'Emal, Kémal

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kèmal under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kèmal mean, and where does it come from?
From Ottoman Turkish كمال, from Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection, maturity”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Kèmal a male or female name?
Kèmal is a male 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 Kèmal have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Kèmal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kemal.
Where is Kèmal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kèmal is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 7.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kèmal?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,005 people named Kèmal in 2020, about 1 in 331 thousand residents.

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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, “Kèmal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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