Jarell
Jarell was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,454 among boys’ names; 2,993 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,910 Americans named Jarell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jarell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jarell?
#4,454 among boys’ names, 2025
Jarell fell from #2,659 in 2015 to #4,454 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.0 to 13.5 per million.
125 babies in 2008, the peak
Jarell peaked in 2008, when 125 boys were given it, #1,369 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,454 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,246 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,754 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,357 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,209 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,609 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,120 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,197 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,272 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,028 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,659 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,384 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 47 | #2,572 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,020 | 36.4 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,089 | 33.7 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,703 | 46.9 |
| 2009 | 116 | #1,448 | 58.5 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,369 | 61.3 |
| 2007 | 106 | #1,500 | 51.1 |
| 2006 | 97 | #1,540 | 47.2 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,455 | 50.6 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,299 | 57.9 |
| 2003 | 90 | #1,455 | 45.6 |
| 2002 | 95 | #1,386 | 48.9 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,431 | 44.8 |
| 2000 | 68 | #1,689 | 34.6 |
| 1999 | 66 | #1,629 | 34.4 |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,392 | 43.4 |
| 1997 | 49 | #1,900 | 26.0 |
| 1996 | 49 | #1,849 | 25.9 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,759 | 26.3 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,310 | 40.9 |
| 1993 | 78 | #1,287 | 39.8 |
| 1992 | 88 | #1,185 | 44.1 |
| 1991 | 104 | #1,059 | 51.5 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,252 | 38.0 |
| 1989 | 99 | #1,036 | 49.5 |
| 1988 | 82 | #1,100 | 42.8 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,058 | 43.9 |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,059 | 41.8 |
| 1985 | 80 | #1,025 | 43.3 |
| 1984 | 41 | #1,514 | 22.7 |
| 1983 | 27 | #1,980 | 15.1 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,871 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,114 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,965 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,243 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,361 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,707 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,227 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,561 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jarell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jarell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jarell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jarell, and how old are they?
2,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,993 Americans ever recorded as Jarell. The median Jarell alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 2,100 people named Jarell (41 women and girls, 2,059 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,775 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 460 |
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 Jarell born?
The states with the most babies named Jarell are New York, California and Illinois, with 42% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 281 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 135 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 114 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 107 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 91 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 74 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 59 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 48 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Jarell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jarell is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 1.4 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 Jarell 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 12,076 babies since 1880, Jarell is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 103 babies (22%), 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 Jarell
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 Jarell and names like it
- Compare Jarell and JarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJarell peaked in 2008.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jarell since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jarell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jarell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.