Amal is a distinctive choice, ranked #177 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Amal in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#177
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About the Name Amal
2024 marks Amal's peak year in UK records so far, sitting at UK #208. The name has climbed 64 places in the last five years — a significant surge by any measure. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Amal is fairly common in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Amal in their class.
⭐ Famous People Named Amal
Amal Knight — Amal Knight is a Jamaican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for USL League One club Charlotte Independence.
Amal Arafa — Amal Arafa is a Syrian actress, singer, and writer.
Amal Hamad — Amal Tawfiq Abdel Hadi Nashwan Hamad is a Palestinian politician and feminist associated with the Fatah movement.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Amal
Unlikely. With around 278 UK babies named Amal per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Amal in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Amal is at its highest recorded position — #177 in 2025, with 278 births. In 2020 it ranked #272.
Amal is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Amal include: Amal Knight, Amal Arafa and Amal Hamad. Short summaries for each appear below.
Amal does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Amals in the wild.
278
UK babies named Amal (2025)
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Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.1
In a school of 600
↑ 95 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Amal
Almost certainly the only Amal in the class
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UK Popularity (1996–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Amal
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Amal Allana is an Indian theatre director, scenic designer and costume designer and presently she is in her second consecutive term as the Chairperson of National School of Drama, India's premier institute of Theatre training, she also runs the Dramatic Art and Design Academy (DADA), New Delhi, with her husband Nissar Allana, which they co-founded in 2000.
Haitham Amal is the Satell Family Professor for Brain Sciences and Head of the Laboratory of Neuromics, Cell signaling, and Translational medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.