Jael — #1470 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jael

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,401 babies named Jael between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jael currently holds the #1470 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 206 babies received it in a single year. Jael is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,239 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jael performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,630 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jael shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 500 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jael in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jael in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,401 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.