Jariel
Jariel was given to 53 boys in 2025, #2,524 among boys’ names; 2,227 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Jariel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jariel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jariel?
#2,524 among boys’ names, 2025
Jariel fell from #1,631 in 2015 to #2,524 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 51.1 to 31.0 per million.
151 babies in 2009, the peak
Jariel peaked in 2009, when 151 boys were given it, #1,200 among boys’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #2,524 | 31.0 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,325 | 35.4 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,256 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 52 | #2,599 | 29.8 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,119 | 38.9 |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,081 | 39.4 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,546 | 60.8 |
| 2018 | 82 | #1,843 | 45.2 |
| 2017 | 94 | #1,689 | 50.8 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,506 | 59.5 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 98 | #1,631 | 51.1 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,381 | 64.6 |
| 2013 | 91 | #1,664 | 48.1 |
| 2012 | 122 | #1,380 | 64.3 |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,399 | 62.7 |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,222 | 75.6 |
| 2009 | 151 | #1,200 | 76.1 |
| 2008 | 119 | #1,417 | 58.3 |
| 2007 | 75 | #1,901 | 36.1 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,070 | 31.1 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,632 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,911 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,310 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,296 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,094 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,277 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,454 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,271 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,826 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,750 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,669 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,289 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,326 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,424 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,697 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,848 | 7.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,784 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,269 | 5.4 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,675 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,779 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jariel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,227 Americans recorded as Jariel, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 53 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 Jariel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jariel, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,227 Americans ever recorded as Jariel. The median Jariel alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,669 people named Jariel (87 women and girls, 1,582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,861 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,070 |
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 Jariel born?
The states with the most babies named Jariel are New York, Florida and Massachusetts, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10 | #1,163 | 3.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,401 | 2.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #836 | 4.0× |
Where Jariel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jariel is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1982 it was given 4.0 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 Jariel 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 11,929 babies since 1880, Jariel is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 98 babies (54%), the most given that year.
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 Jariel
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 Jariel and names like it
- Compare Jariel and JarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJariel peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jariel since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jariel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jariel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.