Jemal
From the Arabic jamāl, "beauty", a close cousin of the better-known Jamal. In Poland it stays rare: fewer than 200 people carry it, almost all of them men, and it went to no newborn last year.
Jemal Pronunciation
Jemal is pronounced YE-mahl (/ˈjɛmal/).
What Jemal means
Where Jemal comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Jemal comes from the Arabic word jamāl, which means beauty. The name sits close to Jamal, its better known relative, and both draw on the same root. Same sound, same idea. In Arabic, jamāl covered good looks and good character alike.
The name travelled south with Islam. In Ethiopia and Eritrea, across the Horn of Africa, Jemal became a common spelling among Muslim families, and it remains one. That African chapter gives the name a second home, far from the Arabian Peninsula where the root began. You hear Jemal more often in Addis Ababa than in Cairo.
On a Polish class register, Jemal would stand out among the Jakubs and Zuzannas. It has no name-day in the Polish calendar and no ready diminutive. What it carries instead is its plain sense, held straight from the Arabic: beauty.
How many people are named Jemal
1 in 125566 men in Poland is named Jemal. 181 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2363 among male names.
Jemal as a middle name
Jemal is a first name for 181 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4291st, between Jeet (6) and Jimi (6).
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#4289 Jean-Yves6
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#4290 Jeet6
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#4291 Jemal6
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#4292 Jimi6
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#4293 Job6