Given name & surname · also North Levantine Arabic
Gemayel
“beautiful, handsome”
Gemayel is a surname from North Levantine Arabic, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gemayel goes back to a word meaning “beautiful, handsome.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Gemayel comes from North Levantine Arabic, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In French usage, Gemayel as a surname is a diminutive of جميل.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gemayel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 72
- 72 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 10 in 1985. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1982.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gemayel’s family of names
In French usage, Gemayel as a surname is a diminutive of جميل.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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