Jeral
Jeral was last recorded in 1998, when 6 babies were given it; 431 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeral by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeral?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,979, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1958, the peak
Jeral peaked in 1958, when 14 boys were given it, #2,214 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 6 | #8,979 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,940 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,468 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,158 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,192 | 4.0 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,472 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,821 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,169 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,741 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,820 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | #5,284 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,697 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,923 | 5.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,085 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,373 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,868 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,901 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,646 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,163 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,150 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,505 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,862 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,106 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,175 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,150 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,321 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,939 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,220 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,786 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,214 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,756 | 2.8 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,257 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,546 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,301 | 6.4 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,939 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,167 | 7.4 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,580 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,344 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,057 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,122 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,647 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,322 | 8.0 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,265 | 9.0 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,290 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,353 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,775 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,041 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,345 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,136 | 6.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,030 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,524 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,265 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,922 | 5.4 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,259 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,102 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeral a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 431 Americans recorded as Jeral, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jeral: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeral, and how old are they?
An estimated 266 Americans named Jeral and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 44 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 447 people named Jeral (76 women and girls, 371 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 301 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jeral rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,447 babies since 1880, Jeral is the sixth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 51 babies recorded by SSA was a Jeral (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jeral
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 Jeral and names like it
- Compare Jeral and JerelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJeral peaked in 1958.
- Arkansas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeral since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Jeral.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jeral alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.