Jazel — #11378 US girls' name
665 babies named Jazel in U.S. Social Security records since 1986, with the highest year being 2009. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 36% of names given to girls today.
42% of everyone ever named Jazel was born in this single decade.
50 babies were named Jazel in 2009 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Jazel
The Social Security Administration has registered 665 babies named Jazel between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jazel currently holds the #11378 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 50 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Jazel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 279 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jazel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 97 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jazel in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Jazel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 665 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Jazel at a glance
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Current rank
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Jazel popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1986
- Peak year (2009)
- 50
- Annual births at peak — across 39 years of records
Currently ranks #11378 among girls.
665 total births across 39 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2009 with 50 births in a single year.
Jazel popularity over time — boys
21 total births recorded since 2005 (Jazel as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Jazel accounts for 3% of total recorded use across both genders.
Jazel by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 279 births that decade — 42% of Jazel's all-time total
Jazel decade highlights
- Peak decade 279 births
- Runner-up 267 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Jazel's strongest decade
279 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Jazel by state
Where Jazel concentrates geographically — total births since 1986
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 97 | 14.6% |
| #2 | Texas | | 71 | 10.7% |
| #3 | New York | | 5 | 0.8% |
97 of 665 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 14.6% of nationwide
- Texas 10.7% of nationwide
- New York 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 14.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1986–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.