# Kamal (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kamal/  
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 | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “perfection” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,101 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,076 / 25 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 693, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | 10,307 |
| 1979 | 5 | 10,910 |
| 1991 | 5 | 14,173 |
| 1997 | 10 | 8,666 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 58 | 2,252 |
| 2012 | 53 | 2,401 |
| 2013 | 55 | 2,315 |
| 2014 | 44 | 2,734 |
| 2015 | 50 | 2,507 |
| 2016 | 52 | 2,452 |
| 2017 | 53 | 2,436 |
| 2018 | 64 | 2,183 |
| 2019 | 62 | 2,245 |
| 2020 | 51 | 2,526 |
| 2021 | 57 | 2,397 |
| 2022 | 54 | 2,540 |
| 2023 | 45 | 2,823 |
| 2024 | 51 | 2,614 |
| 2025 | 43 | 2,907 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 999 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,313 |
| 2013 | 22 | 1,147 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,370 |
| 2015 | 26 | 1,074 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,339 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 18 | 1,369 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1,825 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,309 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,675 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Kamal

- Kamal Ganzouri, former Egyptian Prime minister (1933-2021)
- Kamal Miller, Canadian soccer player
- Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian politician and military officer (1933-1993)
- Kamal El Sheikh, film director (1919-2004)
- Kamal Quliyev, association football player from Azerbaijan
- Kamal Abdullayev, Azerbaijani philologist, badminton administrator and executive (born 1950)
- Kamal Hossain, Bengali lawyer and politician (born 1937)
- Omar Kamal, Egyptian association football player
- Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein, Egyptian prince
- Kamal Narain Singh, 22nd Chief Justice of India
- Kamal Salibi, Academic, writer, historian, researcher
- Kamal Boulahfane, Algerian athletics competitor (born 1976)

## 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.