Jemuel
Jemuel was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,850 among boys’ names; 128 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jemuel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jemuel?
#12,850 among boys’ names, 2025
Jemuel fell from #9,110 in 2015 to #12,850 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 2.9 per million.
9 babies in 2023, the peak
Jemuel peaked in 2023, when 9 boys were given it, #8,534 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,850 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,139 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,534 | 5.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,001 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,121 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,382 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 5 | #13,100 | 2.6 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,110 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,342 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,372 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #10,109 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,378 | 3.1 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,385 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,271 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,253 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,243 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,135 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,937 | 2.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,259 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,465 | 2.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,817 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jemuel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jemuel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jemuel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jemuel, and how old are they?
An estimated 126 Americans named Jemuel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 211 people named Jemuel (0 women and girls, 211 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,902 babies since 1880, Jemuel is the fourth most given (6.7% 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 Jemuel
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 Jemuel and names like it
- Compare Jemuel and JemalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sJemuel peaked in 2023.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Jemuel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jemuel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.