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Baby name
Jamel
Boy
Origin of the name
Jamel comes from the Arabic jamal, “beauty.”
Classic name
11,225births since 1880
1980sgeneration
No. 485rank at its peak, in 1988
Where babies named Jamel are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Jamel is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Jamel is most common in New York (5.9 times), South Carolina (2.3) and North Carolina (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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