The baby name Gemal is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced GEM-uhl (ˈɡɛməl),juh-MAHL (dʒəˈmɑːl) — variant pronunciation like Jamal.
Gemal is Arabic in Origin.
The baby name Gemal is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced GEM-uhl (ˈɡɛməl),juh-MAHL (dʒəˈmɑːl) — variant pronunciation like Jamal.
Gemal is Arabic in Origin.
Gemal is a modern Anglicized variant of the Arabic Jamal (جمال, jamāl), meaning “beauty, grace, handsomeness.” Egyptian Arabic pronounces j as hard g, giving Gamal; Turkish writes Cemal; in the Caucasus and Turkey one also sees Jemal. Gemal mirrors these spellings in English.
Use spans the Arab world, Turkey, the Caucasus, and African‑diaspora communities, with U.S. visibility rising alongside Jamal in the 1970s. A prominent bearer, Egypt’s president Gamal Abdel Nasser, popularized the g‑form abroad. Variants and related forms: Jamal, Gamal, Jemal, Cemal, Djamal; adjectival Jamil/Jameel and feminine Jamila/Jameela. Note that Hebrew gamal (“camel”) is a different root; Gemal here retains the positive sense “beauty.”
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET | Boys | 0 | #26 | 2 | 678 |
| GE | Boys | 0 | #110 | 1 | 2,055 |
| MT | Boys | 0 | #179 | 1 | 4,064 |
| SA | 0 | #312 | 1 | 10,560 | |
| SD | Girls | 0 | #357 | 2 | 7,678 |
| YE | 0 | #372 | 10 | 8,639 | |
| JO | Boys | 0 | #388 | 2 | 7,057 |
| SD | Boys | 0 | #419 | 27 | 10,523 |
| LY | 0 | #558 | 2 | 12,703 | |
| IR | Boys | 0 | #565 | 1 | 10,162 |
| CM | Boys | 0 | #575 | 1 | 12,054 |
| BH | 0 | #586 | 2 | 17,937 | |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #597 | 1 | 20,968 |
| IQ | Boys | 0 | #692 | 6 | 13,071 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #741 | 3 | 18,093 |
| SY | 0 | #766 | 2 | 11,684 | |
| BR | Boys | 0 | #785 | 1 | 12,213 |
| KW | Boys | 0 | #805 | 2 | 18,755 |
| EG | Boys | 0 | #869 | 18 | 15,035 |
| SA | Girls | 0 | #919 | 17 | 25,931 |
| PE | Boys | 0 | #926 | 1 | 14,506 |
| EG | Girls | 0 | #1,009 | 1 | 14,742 |
| IN | Boys | 0 | #1,039 | 1 | 16,750 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,139 | 5 | 22,615 |
| MY | Boys | 0 | #1,182 | 1 | 25,439 |
| MA | 0 | #1,199 | 1 | 20,986 | |
| DZ | 0 | #1,234 | 1 | 20,130 | |
| TR | 0 | #1,248 | 7 | 19,440 | |
| ZA | Boys | 0 | #1,272 | 1 | 25,619 |
| IT | Boys | 0 | #1,448 | 24 | 10,046 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,518 | 97 | 28,008 |
Gemal is popular in 26 countries — most recent births per country:
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