Jaleel
Jaleel was given to 77 boys in 2025, #1,983 among boys’ names; 4,930 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,830 Americans named Jaleel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaleel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jaleel?
#1,983 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaleel fell from #1,630 in 2015 to #1,983 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 51.1 to 45.1 per million.
255 babies in 1994, the peak
Jaleel peaked in 1994, when 255 boys were given it, #651 among boys’ names. The 77 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #1,983 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,356 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 80 | #1,945 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 98 | #1,726 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,624 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 89 | #1,737 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 108 | #1,555 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 89 | #1,739 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,546 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 99 | #1,622 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 98 | #1,630 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,488 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 124 | #1,364 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 157 | #1,164 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,224 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,174 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 163 | #1,132 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 136 | #1,278 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 111 | #1,452 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 98 | #1,528 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 133 | #1,198 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 178 | #945 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 141 | #1,093 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 72 | #1,650 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,245 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 148 | #999 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 162 | #915 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 183 | #817 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 205 | #737 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 204 | #744 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 237 | #687 | 0.12 |
| 1994 | 255 | #651 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 158 | #840 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 205 | #719 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 144 | #875 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,394 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,862 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,286 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,428 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,826 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,488 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,059 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,210 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,627 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,977 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,679 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,854 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,048 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,630 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaleel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaleel has been given almost only to boys: 24 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaleel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaleel, and how old are they?
4,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,930 Americans ever recorded as Jaleel. The median Jaleel alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 3,482 people named Jaleel (60 women and girls, 3,422 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,374 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 71 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,250 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,230 |
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).
Where are babies named Jaleel born?
The states with the most babies named Jaleel are Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, with 83% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 9 | #948 | 1.8× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #898 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,714 | 0.9× |
| California | 5 | #2,608 | 0.3× |
Where Jaleel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaleel is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1971 it was given 2.0 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 Jaleel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,813 babies since 1880, Jaleel is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 77 of their 188 babies (41%), again the 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 Jaleel
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 Jaleel and names like it
- Compare Jaleel and JalilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJaleel peaked in 1994.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaleel since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Jaleel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaleel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.