Jahdiel
Jahdiel was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,311 among boys’ names; 767 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahdiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahdiel?
#4,311 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahdiel fell from #2,938 in 2015 to #4,311 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 14.1 per million.
59 babies in 2021, the peak
Jahdiel peaked in 2021, when 59 boys were given it, #2,333 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,311 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,554 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,027 | 24.0 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,573 | 30.4 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,333 | 33.7 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,566 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,119 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,070 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,611 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 47 | #2,641 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,938 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,176 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,111 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,577 | 15.8 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,072 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,287 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,344 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,975 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,474 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,648 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,818 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,446 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,672 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,228 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,138 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,740 | 4.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,862 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,338 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,211 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahdiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahdiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahdiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahdiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 760 Americans named Jahdiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 507 people named Jahdiel (25 women and girls, 482 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 516 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Jahdiel?
Jahdiel is a less common spelling of Jadiel: SSA has recorded 767 Jahdiel and 5,560 Jadiel since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,484 babies since 1880, Jahdiel is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 250 babies (9.6%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jahdiel
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 Jahdiel and names like it
- Compare Jahdiel and JadielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJahdiel peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahdiel since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Jahdiel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jahdiel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.