Cemâl

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cemâl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic جَمَال (jamāl, “beauty”).

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 736(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 761
  • SYSyria≈1 in 1.5K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈110,000 people, est.

Sources
132 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 736 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cemal in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus and 3 more.

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)

From Arabic جَمَال (jamāl, “beauty”).

Sources 4

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cemâl 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 Cemâl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#53≈110,000 est.≈1 in 736#99Cemal117
SY Syria#139≈13,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Cemal7
AF Afghanistan#381≈3,300 est.≈1 in 11K—Cemal3
CY Cyprus#34≈1,700 est.≈1 in 761—Cemal28
AT Austria—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 8.4K55——
AZ Azerbaijan—≈960 est.≈1 in 11K1Cemal8
US United States—2261 in 1.5M226Cemal132

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; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cemâl is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ćemal, Cemal

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Cemal Mersinli, b. 1875Mithat Cemal Kuntay, b. 1885Cemal Gürsel, b. 1895Cemal Reşit Rey, b. 1904Ulvi Cemal Erkin, b. 1906Cemal Süreya, b. 1931Cemal Kafadar, b. 1954Gamal Mubarak, b. 1963Cemal Hünal, b. 1976Cemal Kütahya, b. 1990

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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 Cemâl mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic جَمَال (jamāl, “beauty”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 2 other sources.
Is Cemâl a male or female name?
Cemâl 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 Cemâl have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 111 thousand people named Cemâl in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cemal.
How common is the name Cemâl?
In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Cemâl in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
How common is Cemâl compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Cemâl is the 53rd most common given name of 264,080 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, “Cemâl” — the 53rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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