Kamál

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kamál is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 63rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Arabic كَمَال (kamāl).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 42K(measured from records)
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.7M
  • GYGuyana1 in 3.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

7,855 people, 2020

Sources
280 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

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 Kamal in US United States, AE United Arab Emirates.

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)

Ultimately from Arabic كَمَال (kamāl).

Sources 10

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • African Muslim Names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kamál 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 Kamál is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7,8551 in 42K7.2KKamal280
ES Spain—3,8421 in 13K3.8K—63
SE Sweden—1,8711 in 5.5K1.9K—21
PL Poland—3841 in 100K384——
DK Denmark—2981 in 20K298—1
NO Norway—2511 in 22K756—23
GY Guyana—2221 in 3.4K222——
AE United Arab Emirates#63≈4 est.≈1 in 2.7M—Kamal119

7,855 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)

Kamál is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name61 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, India, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kamal, Kàmàl, Kamāl, Kámal, Kãmål

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Kâmal, Kamâl, Kamal, Kämal, Kamāl

  • English given name46 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kamal, Kamāl, Kàmàl, Kâmâl, Kãmãl

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Kamál under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kamál mean, and where does it come from?
Ultimately from Arabic كَمَال (kamāl). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and 8 other sources.
Is Kamál a male or female name?
Kamál 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 Kamál have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Kamál, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamal.
Where is Kamál most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kamál is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kamál?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,855 people named Kamál in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
How common is Kamál compared with other names?
In the United Arab Emirates, Kamál is the 63rd most common given name of 31,430 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, “Kamál” — the 63rd most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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