Djamel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Origine arabe, signifie « le beau »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒamɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Djamel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 451(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.6K
- MQMartinique≈1 in 6K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 451 (inferred from the name graph)
≈95,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Origine arabe, signifie « le beau ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Djamel 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #172 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 451 | listed | Djamel | 49 |
| FR France | #687 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 7.2K | Djamel | 282 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Djamel | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Djamel | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 521 | 1 in 96K | 521 | Djamel | 14 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 5 | — | 5 |
| YT Mayotte | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 5 | — | 3 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 5 | — | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the dz-kaggle-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Djamel 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 French, Arabic Jamāl, meaning ‘beauty’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Djamel Allamb. 1947DZAlgerian singer
- Djamel Zidaneb. 1955DZAlgerian footballer
- Djamel Menadb. 1960DZAlgerian association football player (1960–2025)
- Djamel Haimoudib. 1970DZfootball referee
- Djamel Bourasb. 1971FRFrench judoka
- Djamel Belmadib. 1976FRAlgerian and French football player and manager
- Djamel Bensalahb. 1976FRFrench actor and director
- Djamel Mesbahb. 1984DZAlgerian association football player
- Djamel Abdounb. 1986FRAlgerian-French footballer (born 1986)
- Djameleddine Benlamrib. 1989DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Djamel mean, and where does it come from?
- Origine arabe, signifie « le beau ». Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Djamel?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒamɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Djamel a male or female name?
- Djamel 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.
- What are other forms of the name Djamel?
- In the etymology graph, Jamal and Jamaal are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Djamel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 95 thousand people named Djamel in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled djamel.
- How common is the name Djamel?
- In Spain, the national register counted 521 people named Djamel, about 1 in 96 thousand residents.
- How common is Djamel compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Djamel is the 172nd most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Djamel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/djamelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Djamel” — the 172nd most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.