# Amal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/amal/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “hope” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,513 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 372 / 4,141 (92% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,554, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَل (ʔamal, “hope”).

## What it means

Amal is grouped under hope.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 63 | 2,767 |
| 2012 | 82 | 2,290 |
| 2013 | 69 | 2,570 |
| 2014 | 87 | 2,178 |
| 2015 | 117 | 1,779 |
| 2016 | 136 | 1,615 |
| 2017 | 173 | 1,340 |
| 2018 | 183 | 1,262 |
| 2019 | 179 | 1,287 |
| 2020 | 215 | 1,120 |
| 2021 | 241 | 1,045 |
| 2022 | 200 | 1,208 |
| 2023 | 201 | 1,196 |
| 2024 | 192 | 1,223 |
| 2025 | 181 | 1,241 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 12,582 |
| 2011 | 8 | 8,799 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,146 |
| 2014 | 5 | 12,205 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,339 |
| 2016 | 8 | 8,870 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,184 |
| 2018 | 7 | 9,731 |
| 2019 | 8 | 8,938 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7,527 |
| 2021 | 6 | 10,870 |
| 2022 | 15 | 5,891 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,313 |
| 2024 | 10 | 7,800 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5,620 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 894 |
| 2012 | 39 | 934 |
| 2013 | 32 | 1,098 |
| 2014 | 41 | 907 |
| 2015 | 70 | 602 |
| 2016 | 74 | 567 |
| 2017 | 76 | 565 |
| 2018 | 104 | 419 |
| 2019 | 139 | 331 |
| 2020 | 176 | 272 |
| 2021 | 190 | 253 |
| 2022 | 165 | 275 |
| 2023 | 184 | 245 |
| 2024 | 232 | 208 |
| 2025 | 278 | 177 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | 1,850 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2,587 |
| 2002 | 7 | 1,799 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2,189 |
| 2004 | 7 | 2,070 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2006 | 8 | 2,087 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,435 |
| 2008 | 7 | 2,507 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |

## People named Amal

- Amal Maher, Egyptian singer and actress
- Amal Al Qubaisi, Emirati politician
- Amal El-Mohtar, Canadian poet and speculative fiction writer
- Amal Silva, Amal Silva is an former Sri Lankan cricketer
- Amal Ramsis, Egyptian filmmaker
- Amal Bedjaoui, Algerian film director
- Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol, Egyptian poet
- Amal Kenawy, Egyptian visual artist (1974–2012)
- Amel Brahim-Djelloul, French opera singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.