Where the spelling 저말 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 저말 for Jamal.
People in the list with this given name:
- 무시알라, 저말 — Musiala, Jamal
- 드러먼드, 안드레이 (저말) — Drummond, Andre (Jamal)
- 머리, 저말 — Murray, Jamal
Sound by sound
Ja저mal말
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
Other possible spellings
자말Jamal · NIKL spelling of the Arabic name
What Jamal means
Jamal by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 1,351, 10,432 babies (0% girls, 100% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 저말: 3.
Korean names for Jamal
These are the converter’s results for Jamal as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
김정민Kim JeongminBoy’s name · 57% sound match
김재민Kim JaeminBoy’s name · 55% sound match
김정우Kim JeonguBoy’s name · 52% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 김, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics