Jarel
Jarel was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,896 among boys’ names; 1,166 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Jarel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 18 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jarel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jarel?
#7,896 among boys’ names, 2025
Jarel fell from #6,475 in 2015 to #7,896 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 5.9 per million.
45 babies in 2009, the peak
Jarel peaked in 2009, when 45 babies were given it (39 boys, #3,011 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,896 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,515 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,324 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,468 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,477 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,061 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 15 | #5,936 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,181 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,913 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,847 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,475 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,354 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,774 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,122 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,034 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,920 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,011 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,776 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,472 | 14.9 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,933 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,192 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 34 | #2,973 | 17.1 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,393 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 37 | #2,611 | 19.1 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,016 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 34 | #2,696 | 17.3 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,520 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,136 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 29 | #2,702 | 15.4 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,702 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,577 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,716 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 36 | #2,177 | 18.4 |
| 1992 | 38 | #2,056 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,929 | 19.8 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,878 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,962 | 18.5 |
| 1988 | 38 | #1,796 | 19.9 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,080 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 30 | #1,983 | 16.3 |
| 1985 | 32 | #1,847 | 17.3 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,319 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,364 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,791 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 12 | #3,494 | 6.7 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,290 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,242 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,221 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,268 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,250 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,386 | 4.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,556 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jarel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jarel has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jarel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jarel, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,166 Americans ever recorded as Jarel. The median Jarel alive today is 27 years old; half are between 18 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,024 people named Jarel (40 women and girls, 984 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 448 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 466 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 171 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,076 babies since 1880, Jarel is the fourth most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 103 babies (9.7%), again the fourth 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 Jarel
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 Jarel and names like it
- Compare Jarel and JarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJarel peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jarel since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jarel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jarel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.