Cemâl
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cemâl is a male 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”).
- CYCyprus≈1 in 440(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 660
- SYSyria≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 440 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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”).
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #53 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 661 | register #99 | Cemal | 117 |
| SY Syria | #139 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Cemal | 7 |
| CY Cyprus | #34 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 440 | — | Cemal | 28 |
| AF Afghanistan | #381 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Cemal | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 55 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Cemal | 8 |
| US United States | — | 226 | 1 in 1.5M | 226 | Cemal | 132 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cemal Gürselb. 1895TR4th President of the Republic of Turkey (1895–1966)
- Gamal Mubarakb. 1963EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian politician
- Cemal Hünalb. 1976TRTurkish actor (born 1976)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
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.
- Which countries have the most people named Cemâl?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 thousand people named Cemâl in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cemal. After it come Syria, Cyprus, Afghanistan and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cem%C3%A2lThe 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, “Cemâl” — the 53rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.