Jemal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jemal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 355(inferred from the name graph)
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 527
- USUnited States1 in 357K
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 Jemal 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 355 (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ጀማል in ET Ethiopia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jemal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #4 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 355 | listed | ጀማል | 33 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #89 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 527 | — | Jemal | 7 |
| GE Georgia | #114 | 6,064as ჯემალ | 1 in 659 | 6.1K | Jemal | 43 |
| US United States | — | 933 | 1 in 357K | 910 | Jemal | 192 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 383K | — | Jemal | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 344 | 1 in 30K | 344 | Jemal | 18 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Jemal | 3 |
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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Jemal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, masculine singular l-participle of jemati
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)
- Jamal al-Atassib. 1922SYnot in their usual nameSyrian politician (1922–2000)
- Jemal Gaganidzeb. 1933GEGeorgian actor (1933–2023)
- Jemal Karchkhadzeb. 1936GEauthor (1936-1998)
- Jemal Ajiashvilib. 1944GEGeorgian writer
- Dzhemal Kherhadzeb. 1945GEnot in their usual nameSoviet association football player (1945-2019)
- Jemal Gamakhariab. 1949GEGeorgian politician
- Jemal Johnsonb. 1985USfootballer,
- Jemal Dracob. 1986USactor
- Jemal Tassewb. 1989ETEthiopian footballer
- Jemal Le Grandb. 1994NLAruban swimmer
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 35 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 548 | #42,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 333 | #60,505 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 213 | #82,344 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 85 | #8,193 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- 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 Jemal a male or female name?
- Jemal 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 Jemal?
- In the etymology graph, Jamal and Jamaal are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jemal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 305 thousand people named Jemal in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ጀማል.
- How common is the name Jemal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 933 people named Jemal in 2020, about 1 in 357 thousand residents.
- How common is Jemal compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Jemal is the 4th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jemal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jemalThe 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, “Jemal” — the 4th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.