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The first name 
Kemal

Kemal is a first name for boys.

Kemal – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Kemal in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kemal in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Kemal by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Kemal ranks at #6,505. That means there are 6,504 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kemal.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Kemal

Kemal -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Kemal. Boys named Kemal have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,183 Kemal ranked higher than ever in 1965. By comparison, there have been 101 years in which the first name Kemal has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1996. In general, parents name their sons Kemal only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Kemal was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Kemal in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Kemal continues to be a precious jewel: 13 newborns were named Kemal that year, ranking #5,559 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Kemal, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Kemal -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Kemal is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Kemal can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Kemal. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Kemal living in one state or another. (If your name is Kemal and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Kemal is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00004% of all male residents are called Kemal – that’s just one in 2,553,220! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Kemal, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Kemal has 5 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.

With five letters, the name Kemal is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.

Other names with 
K, e, m, a and l

If you take all the letters in the name Kemal – K, e, m, a and l – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Kamel or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kemal

If your name is Kemal and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Kemal

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kemal, you can simply say:

Koala

Elephant

Mouse

Apple

Lion

This is how the name Kemal is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Kemal in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Kemal

Kemal

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Kemal

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Kemal is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
E
M
A
L

Have you ever waved the name Kemal

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

K
E
M
A
L

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kemal sounds like this: