Jahel
Jahel was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,104 among boys’ names; 302 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahel?
#5,104 among boys’ names, 2025
Jahel rose from #6,832 in 2015 to #5,104 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 11.1 per million.
26 babies in 2023, the peak
Jahel peaked in 2023, when 26 boys were given it, #4,154 among boys’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,104 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,309 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,154 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,516 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,854 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,602 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,471 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,499 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,861 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,159 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,832 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,840 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,390 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,200 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,399 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,127 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,921 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 12 | #6,918 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,811 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,199 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,371 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,377 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,662 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 302 Americans recorded as Jahel, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jahel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahel, and how old are they?
An estimated 299 Americans named Jahel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 307 people named Jahel (118 women and girls, 189 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 193 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,114 babies since 1880, Jahel is the sixth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 239 babies (7.9%), again the sixth 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 Jahel
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.
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