Cemal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1. Yüz güzelliği, güzellik
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Statistik Austria, 2024
/d͡ʒemˈaɫ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Cemal is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name.
- CYCyprus≈1 in 440(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 660
- SYSyria≈1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 440 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. Yüz güzelliği, güzellik. 2. Güzel yüz.
Cited for this meaning 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cemal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #53 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 661 | register #99 | Cemal | 117 |
| SY Syria | #139 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Cemal | 7 |
| CY Cyprus | #34 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 440 | — | Cemal | 28 |
| AF Afghanistan | #381 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Cemal | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 55 | — | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Cemal | 8 |
| US United States | — | 226 | 1 in 1.5M | 226 | Cemal | 132 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the tr-tuik-child-stats register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jamal al-Din al-Afghanib. 1838AFnot in their usual namePolitical activist and Islamic ideologist (1838–1897)
- Gamal Abdel Nasserb. 1918EGnot in their usual namePresident of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
- Jamal Khashoggib. 1958SAnot in their usual nameSaudi journalist (1958–2018)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Cemal?
- In the etymology graph, Jamal, Jamaal and Xhemal are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cemal?
- In Turkish /d͡ʒemˈaɫ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Cemal a male or female name?
- Cemal is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik).
- What does the name Cemal mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. Yüz güzelliği, güzellik.
- Which countries have the most people named Cemal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 thousand people named Cemal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cemal. After it come Syria, Cyprus, Afghanistan and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cemal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Cemal in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Cemal compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Cemal is the 53rd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cemalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cemal” — the 53rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.