Given name & surname
Gamal
“resembling a camel”
Gamal is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “resembling a camel.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “resembling a camel.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gamal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 502
- 502 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1976
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,340 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +3%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,340 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1976. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,278 as a first name in 2020; 177 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gamal’s family of names
Gamal has a related form in Gamalea. Gamal has a related form in Gamalee. Gamal has a related form in Gamaleigh.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 19
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Gamal
- Gamal al-GhitaniEgyptian author and novelist (1945–2015)
- Gamal MohamedEgyptian freestyle wrestler1999–2026
- Gamal El-SaginiEgyptian sculptor,painter & artist (1917-1977)
- Gamal EidEgyptian human rights activist and lawyerborn 1964
- Gamal NkrumahGhanaian journalist, Pan-Africanist and newspaper editorborn 1959
- Gamal HamdanEgyptian scholar (1928-1993)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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