Kamàl
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kamàl is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 7,855 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 63rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Arabic كَمَال (kamāl).
- GYGuyana1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 5.5K
- ESSpain1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
7,855 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kamal in MA Morocco, 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).
Cited for this meaning 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 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kamàl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 7,855 | 1 in 42K | 7.2K | Kamal | 280 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,842 | 1 in 13K | 3.8K | — | 63 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,871 | 1 in 5.5K | 1.9K | — | 21 |
| PL Poland | — | 384 | 1 in 100K | 384 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | #71 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Kamal | 130 |
| DK Denmark | — | 298 | 1 in 20K | 298 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 251 | 1 in 22K | 756 | — | 23 |
| GY Guyana | — | 222 | 1 in 3.4K | 222 | — | — |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #63 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Kamal | 119 |
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kamàl 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 Kamàl a male or female name?
- Kamàl 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Kamàl?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.9 thousand people named Kamàl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamal. After it come Spain, Sweden, Poland and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kamàl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kamàl 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 Kamàl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,855 people named Kamàl in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Kamàl compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Kamàl is the 63rd most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kam%C3%A0lThe 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, “Kamàl” — ranked 2903rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.