Jahmel
Jahmel was last recorded in 2024, when 14 babies were given it; 660 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jahmel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jahmel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,300, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1997, the peak
Jahmel peaked in 1997, when 26 boys were given it, #2,930 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14 | #6,300 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,463 | 6.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,817 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,051 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,567 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,339 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,419 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,196 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,837 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,797 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #7,750 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,202 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,061 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,745 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,825 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,889 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,281 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,629 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,112 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,594 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,886 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,579 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,756 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,975 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,620 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,906 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,930 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,149 | 12.1 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,131 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,508 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,898 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | #2,869 | 12.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,377 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,803 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,696 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,638 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,073 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,260 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,004 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,725 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,985 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,773 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,801 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,177 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,070 | 8.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,252 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,216 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jahmel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jahmel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jahmel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jahmel, and how old are they?
An estimated 641 Americans named Jahmel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 17 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 493 people named Jahmel (5 women and girls, 488 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 606 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
Where are babies named Jahmel born?
The states with the most babies named Jahmel are New York, Florida and North Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 193 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jahmel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jahmel is most over-represented in New York: since 1976 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jahmel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jahmel?
Jahmel is a less common spelling of Jamel: SSA has recorded 660 Jahmel and 11,592 Jamel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 60,880 babies since 1880, Jahmel is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 307 babies recorded by SSA was a Jahmel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jahmel
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 Jahmel and names like it
- Compare Jahmel and JamelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJahmel peaked in 1997.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jahmel since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Jahmel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jahmel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.