Kamal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kamal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ‘perfection, completeness’; Arabic-derived given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 515(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 671
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2.6K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #875 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 317 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 328 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘perfection, completeness’; Arabic-derived given name.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kamal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #46 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 671 | listed | Kamal | 131 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 328 | — | Kamal | 92 |
| MA Morocco | #382 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 515 | — | Kamal | 51 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Kamal | 41 |
| PK Pakistan | #344 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 1 | Kamal | 96 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 696 | 478 | — | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Kamal | 58 |
| US United States | — | 7,855 | 1 in 42K | 7.2K | Kamal | 317 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Kamal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hindu name found among people from Sind, Pakistan, which goes back to the personal name of an ancestor, derived from Sanskrit kamala ‘lotus’. The personal name is common in India, and has become a family name in the U.S. among South Indians.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a personal name based on Arabic kamal ‘perfection’, ‘integrity’. It is found in compound names such as Kamal ud-DTn ‘perfection of religion’ .
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
1Sanskrit: ‘pink’, also a name for the lotus. 2 Muslim name: see Arabic supplement.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Arabic, perfection, completion, integrity
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Swedish, Kamal är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’fullkomlighet’. Kamal har samma ursprung som → Kamil. Den turkiska formen är → Kemal.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisīb. 1265IRPersian mathematician
- Kamal Jumblattb. 1917LBLebanese politician (1917-1977)
- Kamal Narain Singhb. 1926IN22nd Chief Justice of India
- Casey Kasemb. 1932USnot in their usual nameAmerican voice actor (1932–2014)
- Kamal Ganzourib. 1933EGformer Egyptian Prime minister (1933-2021)
- Kamal Hassan Alib. 1933EGEgyptian politician and military officer (1933-1993)
- Kamal Hossainb. 1937BDBengali lawyer and politician (born 1937)
- Kamal Kharazib. 1944IRIranian academic and politician
- Kamal Nathb. 1946INIndian politician
- Kamal Hassanb. 1954INIndian actor, activist and joker (born 1954 )
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)
Attested in 108 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.2K | #2,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 635 | #2,903 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 478 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 43 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Kamal mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘perfection, completeness’; Arabic-derived given name. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Kamal a male or female name?
- Kamal 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 Kamal?
- In the etymology graph, Kamala is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kamal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 242 thousand people named Kamal in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kamal.
- How common is the name Kamal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,855 people named Kamal in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Kamal compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Kamal is the 46th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kamalThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kamal” — the 46th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.