Jabez
Jabez was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,479 among boys’ names; 1,134 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Jabez and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jabez by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jabez mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jabez is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
From Hebrew יַעְבֵּץ.
/ˈd͡ʒeɪ.bɛz/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jabez?
#5,479 among boys’ names, 2025
Jabez fell from #4,122 in 2015 to #5,479 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.0 to 10.0 per million.
102 babies in 2002, the peak
Jabez peaked in 2002, when 102 boys were given it, #1,309 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,479 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,008 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,457 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,278 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,630 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,599 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,388 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,520 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 26 | #4,028 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,141 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #4,122 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,723 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,912 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,259 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,681 | 23.7 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,844 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,862 | 21.2 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,374 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 45 | #2,702 | 21.7 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,803 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,063 | 30.0 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,058 | 29.2 |
| 2003 | 72 | #1,703 | 36.4 |
| 2002 | 102 | #1,309 | 52.5 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,387 | 46.3 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,554 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,194 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,911 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,853 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,361 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,268 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,113 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,840 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,057 | 6.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,740 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,725 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,571 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,391 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,734 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,774 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,682 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,198 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,350 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,248 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,097 | 5.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,242 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,052 | 3.9 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,087 | 5.4 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,472 | 5.1 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,683 | 6.7 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,050 | 43.7 |
| 1880 | 5 | #988 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jabez a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jabez has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jabez: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jabez, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,134 Americans ever recorded as Jabez. The median Jabez alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 978 people named Jabez (29 women and girls, 949 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,002 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 37 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 81 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 280 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jabez
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jabez and names like it
- Compare Jabez and AdinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJabez peaked in 2002.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jabez since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Jabez: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jabez.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jabez alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.