Gamal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: camelo; camel
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡəˈmɑɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gamal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 256(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 2.5K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 3.7K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 256 (inferred from the name graph)
≈410,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
camelo; camel
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gamal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #1 | ≈410,000 est. | ≈1 in 256 | — | Gamal | 181 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #230 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Gamal | 79 |
| SD Sudan | #523 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Gamal | 33 |
| YE Yemen | #506 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Gamal | 44 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #227 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Gamal | 78 |
| KW Kuwait | #132 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Gamal | 47 |
| US United States | — | 130 | 1 in 2.6M | 1.3K | Gamal | 226 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Gamal 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 German, from Germ. *gamal 'old'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Handsome.
as a nameThe African book of names
Camello
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Irish, fool, simpleton, goose (silly person), gull (one easily cheated, dupe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, old (having existed for a relatively long period of time)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Mimi Gamalb. 1941EGEgyptian actress
- Mahmoud El-Gamalb. 1963USPh.D. Northwestern University 1988
- Rehab El Gamalb. 1974EGEgyptian actress
- Omar Gamalb. 1982EGEgyptian footballer
- Amr Gamalb. 1983YEYemeni Film Director
- Ramy Gamalb. 1984EGEgyptian singer and composer
- Youssef Gamalb. 1984EGEgyptian footballer
- Raghda Gamalb. 1985YEa Yemeni journalist and poet.
- Amin El Gamalb. 1986USAmerican actor
- Ahmed Gamalb. 1988EGEgyptian singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 63 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 177 | #107,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 130 | #130,610 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gamal mean, and where does it come from?
- camelo; camel Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Gamal?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəˈmɑɫ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Gamal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 407 thousand people named Gamal in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gamal.
- How common is the name Gamal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 130 people named Gamal in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Gamal compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Gamal is the most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamalThe 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, “Gamal” — the most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.