Jeriel
Jeriel is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 30 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,946 among girls’ names and #3,698 among boys’, #7,034 among all names counting both); 1,064 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Jeriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeriel?
#3,698 among boys’ names, 2025
Jeriel fell from #2,541 in 2015 to #3,698 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.6 to 17.6 per million.
53 babies in 2009, the peak
Jeriel peaked in 2009, when 53 boys were given it, #2,418 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,698 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,186 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,395 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,938 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,451 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,095 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,598 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,286 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,094 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 45 | #2,703 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,541 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,773 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 47 | #2,574 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,651 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,608 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 37 | #3,106 | 19.3 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,418 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,486 | 25.0 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,947 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,118 | 17.0 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,922 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,333 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,694 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,788 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,766 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,896 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,818 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,154 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,892 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,767 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,938 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,642 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,957 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,000 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,711 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,564 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,636 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,975 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,465 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,120 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,048 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,998 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,798 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,306 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,701 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,062 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeriel has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 46 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jeriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeriel, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,064 Americans ever recorded as Jeriel. The median Jeriel alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,090 people named Jeriel (49 women and girls, 1,041 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 865 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 141 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 427 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 469 |
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 Jeriel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 9 | #1,298 | 2.5× |
Where Jeriel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeriel is most over-represented in Florida: since 1970 it was given 2.5 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 Jeriel 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 17,149 babies since 1880, Jeriel is the fifth most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 71 babies (51%), the 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 Jeriel
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 Jeriel and names like it
- Compare Jeriel and JerrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJeriel peaked in 2009.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeriel since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jeriel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jeriel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.