Jerel
Jerel was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,541 among boys’ names; 3,617 Americans have been recorded with it since 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,180 Americans named Jerel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jerel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jerel?
#8,541 among boys’ names, 2025
Jerel fell from #4,619 in 2015 to #8,541 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 5.3 per million.
166 babies in 1989, the peak
Jerel peaked in 1989, when 166 boys were given it, #767 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,541 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,184 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,480 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,483 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,230 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,237 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,855 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,190 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,656 | 8.4 |
| 2015 | 21 | #4,619 | 11.0 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 24 | #4,180 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,877 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,454 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,575 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,129 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,352 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,612 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,305 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,424 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,921 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,616 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,336 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,217 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,889 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 26 | #3,247 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 38 | #2,373 | 19.8 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,329 | 19.9 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,111 | 22.3 |
| 1996 | 55 | #1,716 | 29.0 |
| 1995 | 62 | #1,532 | 32.6 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,302 | 41.4 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,185 | 45.4 |
| 1992 | 126 | #954 | 63.1 |
| 1991 | 126 | #945 | 62.4 |
| 1990 | 141 | #858 | 68.6 |
| 1989 | 166 | #767 | 83.0 |
| 1988 | 165 | #735 | 86.2 |
| 1987 | 147 | #753 | 78.7 |
| 1986 | 123 | #819 | 66.8 |
| 1985 | 66 | #1,152 | 35.7 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,256 | 29.9 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,136 | 35.1 |
| 1982 | 64 | #1,143 | 35.3 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,213 | 31.8 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,248 | 30.8 |
| 1979 | 54 | #1,256 | 31.4 |
| 1978 | 42 | #1,446 | 25.6 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,131 | 35.9 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,555 | 22.3 |
| 1975 | 64 | #1,034 | 41.0 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,012 | 42.0 |
| 1973 | 68 | #982 | 43.6 |
| 1972 | 72 | #956 | 44.4 |
| 1971 | 62 | #1,038 | 35.1 |
| 1970 | 93 | #837 | 50.0 |
| 1969 | 65 | #953 | 36.3 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,051 | 28.8 |
| 1967 | 31 | #1,376 | 17.8 |
| 1966 | 22 | #1,669 | 12.3 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,176 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,474 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,584 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,993 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,472 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,726 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 12 | #2,433 | 5.7 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,920 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 22 | #1,696 | 10.4 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,756 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 27 | #1,481 | 13.2 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,267 | 17.7 |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,017 | 25.7 |
| 1951 | 73 | #824 | 38.8 |
| 1950 | 88 | #731 | 49.2 |
| 1949 | 87 | #738 | 49.0 |
| 1948 | 54 | #948 | 30.8 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,073 | 25.1 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,203 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,155 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,384 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,762 | 4.1 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,782 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jerel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jerel has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jerel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jerel, and how old are they?
3,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 3,617 Americans ever recorded as Jerel. The median Jerel alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 2,754 people named Jerel (51 women and girls, 2,703 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,254 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 361 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 749 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,510 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 172 |
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 Jerel born?
The states with the most babies named Jerel are New York, California and Texas, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 180 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 148 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 119 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 86 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 86 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 74 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 73 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 63 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 58 | not ranked | 0.7× |
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 Jerel 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 17,469 babies since 1880, Jerel is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 71 babies (13%), the third 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 Jerel
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 Jerel and names like it
- Compare Jerel and JerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJerel peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jerel since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Jerel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jerel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.