Kemal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Bilgi ve erdem bakımından olgunluk, yetkinlik, erginlik, eksiksizlik.2
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kemal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 457(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 480
- BGBulgaria≈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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kemal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- #794 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 457 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, 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)
1. Bilgi ve erdem bakımından olgunluk, yetkinlik, erginlik, eksiksizlik.2. En yüksek değer.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kemal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #29 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 457 | — | Kemal | 152 |
| US United States | — | 7,855as Kamal | 1 in 42K | 7.2K | Kemal | 184 |
| SY Syria | #329 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Kemal | 8 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #124 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 787 | — | Kemal | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,842as Kamal | 1 in 13K | 3.8K | — | 18 |
| BG Bulgaria | #424 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Kemal | 42 |
| CY Cyprus | #21 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 480 | — | Kemal | 30 |
| HR Croatia | — | 214 | 1 in 20K | 214 | Kemal | 33 |
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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Kemal 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.
In Swedish, Kemal är den turkiska varianten av arabiskans → Kamal ’fullkomlighet ’. En känd namnbärare är Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938), grundare av det moderna Turkiet.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (türk, kemal »Vollkommenheit« aus gleich bedeutend arab. kamäl).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
El más alto honor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In woe, miracle, power; be powerful (as a ghost)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Turkmen, Kämil ýetişen, bişisen .
as a wordturkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
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)
- Kemal Reisb. 1451TRTurkish privateer and admiral of the Ottoman Empire
- Kemalpaşazadeb. 1469TRnot in their usual nameOttoman historian, jurist and poet (1469–1534)
- Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenkb. 1878TRTurkish diplomat and statesperson (1878–1969)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürkb. 1881TRfounding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
- Kemal Tahirb. 1910TRTurkish novelist (1910–1973)
- Kemal Kılıçdaroğlub. 1948TRTurkish politician (born 1948)
- Kemal Montenob. 1948BABosnian singer-songwriter
- Kemal Başarb. 1963TRTurkish theatrical director (born 1963)
- Kemal Özdeşb. 1970TRTurkish association football manager (born 1970)
- Muzzy Izzetb. 1974GBnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1974)
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 73 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #12,395 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 214 | #1,110 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 184 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 67 | #21,789 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 59 | #11,252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #12,395 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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
- Is Kemal a male or female name?
- Kemal 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 does the name Kemal mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Bilgi ve erdem bakımından olgunluk, yetkinlik, erginlik, eksiksizlik.2.
- What are other forms of the name Kemal?
- In the etymology graph, Qemal is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kemal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 179 thousand people named Kemal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kemal.
- How common is the name Kemal?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 214 people named Kemal in 2021, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Kemal compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kemal is the 29th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kemalThe 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, “Kemal” — the 29th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.