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How popular is “Jamaal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jamaal” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jamaal” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jamaal” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jamaal” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jamaal” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jamaal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jamaal” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1970 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1971 11 0.000003205 11 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1973 9 0.000002983 9 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 63 0.000020865 63 -100%
1976 236 0.000077777 6 230 -95%
1977 208 0.000065481 208 -100%
1978 199 0.000062699 5 194 -95%
1979 203 0.000061016 203 -100%
1980 446 0.000129482 446 -100%
1981 387 0.00011187 5 382 -97%
1982 724 0.000206388 9 715 -98%
1983 587 0.00016949 9 578 -97%
1984 403 0.000115514 403 -100%
1985 346 0.000096943 346 -100%
1986 258 0.000072531 258 -100%
1987 264 0.000073219 264 -100%
1988 253 0.00006847 253 -100%
1989 251 0.000065289 6 245 -95%
1990 233 0.00005895 5 228 -96%
1991 255 0.000065464 255 -100%
1992 228 0.000059355 228 -100%
1993 193 0.00005119 193 -100%
1994 178 0.00004788 178 -100%
1995 144 0.000039321 144 -100%
1996 135 0.000037015 135 -100%
1997 112 0.00003089 112 -100%
1998 116 0.000031537 116 -100%
1999 122 0.000033028 122 -100%
2000 110 0.000029101 110 -100%
2001 101 0.000026981 101 -100%
2002 133 0.000035578 133 -100%
2003 117 0.000030771 117 -100%
2004 111 0.000029051 111 -100%
2005 117 0.00003043 117 -100%
2006 125 0.000031596 125 -100%
2007 118 0.000029517 118 -100%
2008 87 0.000022134 87 -100%
2009 102 0.0000267 102 -100%
2010 88 0.000023811 88 -100%
2011 75 0.000020504 75 -100%
2012 82 0.000022421 82 -100%
2013 62 0.000017006 62 -100%
2014 61 0.000016458 61 -100%
2015 66 0.000017833 66 -100%
2016 71 0.000019353 71 -100%
2017 70 0.000019574 70 -100%
2018 42 0.000011946 42 -100%
2019 53 0.00001527 53 -100%
2020 35 0.000010477 35 -100%
2021 48 0.000014168 48 -100%
2022 32 0.000009459 32 -100%
2023 38 0.000011476 38 -100%
2024 34 0.000010215 34 -100%

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  4. Jamaad
  5. Jamaah
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  8. Jamaari
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  10. Jamacia
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