Kamal
In Arabic the name means "perfection"; read through Sanskrit it gives "lotus". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 350 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Kamal Pronunciation
Kamal is pronounced KAH-mahl (/ˈkamal/).
What Kamal means
Where Kamal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kamal enters Polish paperwork as a Hebrew name with an Arabic voice. The Hebrew root behind it holds the idea of ripening, of a thing brought to full growth. Arabic pushed the same sense into kamāl, perfection, and that is what Polish keeps in the gloss doskonałość.
There is a second story, from much further east. In Sanskrit, kamala means lotus, and the flower sense fastened onto the name later, along a separate road through another language. A Polish reader meets Kamal with no diminutive and no home-grown variant. The form stays plain.
Picture the name on a school register in a Warsaw classroom, read out once and spelled without fuss. It needs no polszczenie. What a bearer holds is the older word underneath, kamāl, doskonałość.
How many people are named Kamal
1 in 62416 men in Poland is named Kamal. 342 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1625 among male names.
Kamal's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Kamal as a middle name
Kamal is a first name for 342 men in Poland and a middle name for another 74, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 836th, between Ismael (74) and Mariano (74).
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#834 Dirk74
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#835 Ismael74
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#836 Kamal74
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#837 Mariano74
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#838 Reinhard74