Kemal is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “integrity.” In 2024 it was given to 7 boys in the United States.
Kemal at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic · Turkish
Meaning
“integrity”
About the name Kemal
Kemal belongs to the Muslim & Arabic and Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “integrity” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Kemal first appears in Social Security records in 1965. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #4007 in 1981, and in 2024 7 babies received the name — 368 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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