Cemal
A Turkish name meaning "beauty, grace". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than a hundred men carry it, and no boy has been given it in the years on record, so most Poles have never met a Cemal.
Cemal Pronunciation
Cemal is pronounced TSE-mahl (/ˈt͡sɛmal/).
What Cemal means
Where Cemal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cemal comes to Turkish from Arabic, from the root jamāl, which means beauty. Turkish speakers give it to boys, and its short meaning is beauty, grace. The word once praised the whole of a person, looks and conduct together.
The grace in it settled onto the plainer sense of beauty later. Arabic jamāl names something pleasing to look upon. As the name moved into Turkish use, the reading widened toward bearing and character. That widening came after the root.
On a form at the urząd, Cemal is written once and read without trouble. It is short. For a Polish family it arrives already meaning piękno, beauty, with its Turkish tie kept whole.
How many people are named Cemal
1 in 232024 men in Poland is named Cemal. 92 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3630 among male names.
Cemal as a middle name
Cemal is a first name for 92 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3498th, between Bryce (8) and Chau (8).
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#3496 Bratumił8
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#3497 Bryce8
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#3498 Cemal8
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#3499 Chau8
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#3500 Cheng8