Kamal

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kamal: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kamal: Recorded since 1963, it reached #360 in 1969, and it stood at #1,675 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
62years from first to last
#360highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#526
1997	#554
1998	#526
1999	#639
2000	#554
2001	#686
2002	#950
2003	#889
2004	#688
2005	#807
2006	#939
2007	#731
2008	#1206
2009	#1649
2010	#1055
2011	#999
2012	#1313
2013	#1147
2014	#1370
2015	#1074
2016	#1363
2017	#1339
2018	#1382
2019	#1369
2020	#1825
2021	#1391
2022	#1781
2023	#1309
2024	#1675

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 26 of the 41 years from 1963 to 2003.

In 2023: #770 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1309 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1963–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1963
First recorded at #509 among boys in Norway in 1963 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1963–2003
Highest recorded position: #360 among boys in Norway, in 1969 (recorded 1963–2003).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1675 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Kamal appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 677 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Boys, from 1963.

Kamal across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kamal's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#509 (1963)	#360 (1969)	#538 (2003)	26 of 41	140 (1963–2003)	10 (1969)
England and Wales · Boys	#526 (1996)	#526 (1996)	#1675 (2024)	29 of 29	677 (1996–2024)	38 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#423 (2003)	#423 (2003)	#770 (2023)	4 of 21	14 (2003–2023)	4 (2003)

Kamal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kamal in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	128	4 of 10	32
2000sbusiest	259	10 of 10	26
2010s	212	10 of 10	21
2020s	78	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 26 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kamal appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1963 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #360 in Norway in 1969.

Kamal's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1675	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1309	20	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1781	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1391	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1825	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1369	18	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1339	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1074	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1370	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1147	22	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#999	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1649	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1206	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#731	38	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#939	25	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#807	29	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#688	34	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#889	22	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#950	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#686	26	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#554	34	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#639	27	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#526	36	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#554	32	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#526	33	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#538	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#570	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#550	5	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#629	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#629	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#592	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#584	5	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#442	9	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#584	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#539	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#579	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#500	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#580	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#534	6	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#569	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#613	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#426	9	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#613	4	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#531	6	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#510	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#557	5	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#591	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#360	10	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#527	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#486	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#509	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1963 and 2024, ranked in 53 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #360, first reached in 1969.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 40 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kamaal · #1167, 15y
Kamai · #2488, 10y
Kamali · #1869, 18y
Kamani · #2174, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ammar · #362, 52y
Bushra · #363, 54y
Abbas · #365, 55y
Aleksandr · #365, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Ammar · #362, 52y
Abdulrahman · #357, 45y
Coleen · #363, 26y
Leone · #363, 37y

Kamal was ranked #360 in Norway · Boys in 1969. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kamal and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kamal without appearing here.

Kamal moved ahead of

Craig Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1781 and #1692 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1309 and #2325.
Grant Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1313 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1147 and #2055.
Ross Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1781 and #1366 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1309 and #2160.
Barry Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1649 and #1302 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1055 and #1801.

Moved ahead of Kamal

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1391 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #1781 and #967.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1309 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1675 and #1132.
Mathias Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1147 and #1247 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1370 and #889.
Kasper Compare
In 2007 they stood at #731 and #820 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1206 and #728.

Moved the opposite way to Kamal

Joakim Compare
Between 1969 and 2003 in Norway · Boys, Kamal went from #360 to #538 while Joakim went from #416 to #47.
Julian Compare
Between 1969 and 2003 in Norway · Boys, Kamal went from #360 to #538 while Julian went from #472 to #89.
Sondre Compare
Between 1969 and 2003 in Norway · Boys, Kamal went from #360 to #538 while Sondre went from #394 to #18.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kamal went from #526 to #1675 while Albie went from #853 to #19.

Moved the same way as Kamal

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kamal went from #526 to #1675 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kamal went from #526 to #1675 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kamal went from #526 to #1675 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kamal went from #526 to #1675 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1963 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #360 in Norway in 1969. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kamal

Kamal at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kamal across 3 official records

Kamal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kamal appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Kamal

Kamal and the names beside it

Kamal moved ahead of

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Kamal at a glance

Kamal across 3 official records

Kamal by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kamal appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Kamal

Kamal and the names beside it

Kamal moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Kamal

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