Jewels
Jewels is given to both girls and boys: 41 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,672 among girls’ names and #12,869 among boys’, #5,945 among all names counting both); 1,274 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Jewels and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jewels by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jewels?
#3,672 among girls’ names, 2025
Jewels fell from #3,012 in 2015 to #3,672 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 31.9 to 25.5 per million.
57 babies in 2015, the peak
Jewels peaked in 2015, when 57 girls were given it, #3,012 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 81% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,672 | 25.5 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,610 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,405 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,326 | 20.1 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,193 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,305 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,820 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,025 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,220 | 29.0 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,886 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #3,012 | 31.9 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,294 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,381 | 26.8 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,169 | 20.4 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,405 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,144 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,482 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,221 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,162 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,507 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,631 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,212 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,249 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,677 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,272 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,016 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,659 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,376 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,300 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,442 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,747 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,420 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,782 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,753 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,252 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,653 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,307 | 7.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,501 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jewels a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,274 Americans recorded as Jewels, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jewels: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jewels, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,274 Americans ever recorded as Jewels. The median Jewels alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,024 people named Jewels (946 women and girls, 78 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,051 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 152 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 542 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 567 |
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 Jewels born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,638 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Jewels with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jewels
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 Jewels and names like it
- Compare Jewels and AmairanyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJewels peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jewels since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Jewels.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jewels alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.