Jewell — #8929 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Jewell

The Social Security Administration has registered 29,428 babies named Jewell between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jewell currently holds the #8929 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 893 babies received it in a single year. Jewell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,679 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jewell performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 7,687 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Jewell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 2,197 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jewell in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jewell 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 29,428 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.