Jamall
Masculine · “Arabic jamal”
Islamic aesthetics divides the divine attributes into two. Jamal is beauty, the gentle and merciful; jalal is majesty, the overwhelming and awesome. The two words differ by one consonant and between them cover everything that can be said about God.
How old is the name Jamall?
Jamall first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Jamall alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,500 people named Jamall are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jamall most popular?
Jamall peaked in 1980, reaching #1238 nationally. Today it ranks #9714, 8,476 places below that high. See the whole 1980 chart.
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Where it comes from
From jamal to Jamall
The story of Jamall
The pairing runs through Islamic theology and mysticism. The names of God are conventionally sorted into those of jamal, beauty, which are gentle, merciful and intimate, and those of jalal, majesty, which are overwhelming, remote and terrible: the Merciful and the Forgiving against the Compeller and the Avenger. Ibn Arabi and the later Sufi writers make the distinction structural, arguing that the two are complementary aspects of a single reality and that creation requires both, and that a human being encounters God alternately through one and the other. The two words are almost identical, sharing two of three consonants, which the tradition has treated as significant rather than accidental. The phrase Dhul-Jalal wal-Ikram, Lord of Majesty and Generosity, is a Quranic name of God combining them.
Meaning
Arabic jamal, beauty
Jamall is a respelling of Jamal, Arabic for beauty, from the root j-m-l. In classical Islamic thought jamal, beauty, is paired with jalal, majesty, as the two categories of divine attribute. The doubled l is an American addition. The peak of this spelling is 1980.
How the name formed
- jamal
- Jamal
- Jamall
Related forms: Jamal · Jamal · Cemal
Pronouncing Jamall
juh-MAHL
Two syllables, stress on the second. Jamall and Jamal are homophones; the doubled l does not lengthen anything in English.
Nicknames for Jamall
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1969
- Most boys named
- 198055 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1238reached in 1980
- Change vs 2024
- −12.5%7 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jamall in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jamal in Arabic — same name
- Jamal in English — spelling variant
- Cemal in Turkish — same name
Jamalls among us
people named Jamall are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 244,011 born in 2025 was named Jamall
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jamall
- #9714
- Jamall on the 2025 chart
- #727
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jamall went to 7 boys in 2025, but Jamal and Jamaal are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 202, which makes it the 727th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,987 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 8,456 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 244,011 for Jamall itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Parnell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jamall's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Parnell climbed just as high around 1963, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Parnell's path sketches the road Jamall is walking now.
Jamall sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jamall beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jamall in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is clear and carries real weight.
- The stressed ending gives it a firm final beat.
- It is recognized across the entire Muslim world.
- Jamal is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- The doubled l adds nothing audible.
- The 1980 peak dates it to a narrow window.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jamalls are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Jamall are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jamall?
- Jamall is one of 3 recorded spellings. Jamal is the more common one — 169 births in 2025 against 7 for Jamall.
- How popular is the name Jamall in 2025?
- Jamall ranks #9714 among US boy names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jamall?
- About 1 in every 244,011 US boys born in 2025 was named Jamall — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jamall with classmates?
- Jamall will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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