The JAMAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,774	15225	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	-1	116957	0	0
Change since 1880	+1775	+101732	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	106	13624	0.001	6
United Kingdom	510	8714	0.001	11

Top States for JAMAL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	294	8020	0.002	15
California	248	12421	0.001	7
Texas	238	9216	0.001	11
Illinois	161	10003	0.001	13
Florida	123	16953	0.001	8
Top States for JAMAL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	294	8020	0.002	15
Delaware	11	13769	0.001	14
Illinois	161	10003	0.001	13
Texas	238	9216	0.001	11
Maryland	59	11206	0.001	11

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JAMAL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JAMAL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JAMAL in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JAMAL by picking someone at random in New York than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JAMAL

Religious origin: Muslim

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of JAMAL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	810	45.66
White (Caucasian)	460	25.93
Mixed Race	238	13.42
Black/African American	218	12.29
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant
White (Hispanic)	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JAMAL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to JAMAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JAMAL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.