Given name
Yamal
“one of twins”
Yamal is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “one of twins.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “one of twins.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yamal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,635 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,635 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yamal’s family of names
Yamal has a related form in Yamale. Yamal has a related form in Yamalio. Yamal has a related form in Yamall.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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