Jewel — #1399 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jewel

The Social Security Administration has registered 41,338 babies named Jewel between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jewel currently holds the #1399 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 826 babies received it in a single year. Jewel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5,233 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jewel performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 7,779 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jewel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 4,836 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Jewel in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jewel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 41,338 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.