Jemel
Jemel was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 724 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jemel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jemel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,073, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1989, the peak
Jemel peaked in 1989, when 29 boys were given it, #2,316 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,073 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,136 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,734 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,815 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,249 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,236 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 5 | #13,192 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,415 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,433 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,609 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 12 | #6,832 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,339 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,365 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,614 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,380 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,540 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,875 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,619 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,767 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,282 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,637 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,719 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,144 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,997 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,908 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,392 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,047 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,899 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,316 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 21 | #2,717 | 11.0 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,120 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,185 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,460 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 25 | #2,119 | 13.9 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,047 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,231 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,112 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,777 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 27 | #1,965 | 15.7 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,102 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,157 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,803 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,248 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,726 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,737 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,051 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,060 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,183 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,906 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jemel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jemel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jemel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jemel, and how old are they?
An estimated 685 Americans named Jemel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 563 people named Jemel (26 women and girls, 537 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 691 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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 Jemel born?
The states with the most babies named Jemel are New York, North Carolina and Georgia, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 177 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| North Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jemel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jemel is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 3.5 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 Jemel 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,902 babies since 1880, Jemel is the second most given (38% of them).
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 Jemel
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 Jemel and names like it
- Compare Jemel and JemalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJemel peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jemel since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Jemel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jemel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.