Jibril
Jibril was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,779 among boys’ names; 1,392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Jibril and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jibril by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jibril mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jibril is “a male given name from Arabic used chiefly among Muslims, the Arabic version of Gabriel.”
Borrowed from Arabic جِبْرِيل (jibrīl). Doublet of Gabriel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jibril?
#2,779 among boys’ names, 2025
Jibril fell from #2,700 in 2015 to #2,779 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 23.5 to 26.9 per million.
69 babies in 2009, the peak
Jibril peaked in 2009, when 69 boys were given it, #2,020 among boys’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #2,779 | 26.9 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,432 | 33.1 |
| 2023 | 61 | #2,299 | 35.7 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,771 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,604 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,781 | 25.5 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,962 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,328 | 18.7 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,277 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,219 | 32.1 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,700 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,308 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,640 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,796 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,456 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,657 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,020 | 34.8 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,073 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 51 | #2,491 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,903 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,587 | 21.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,183 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,880 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,785 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,776 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,025 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,520 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,096 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,103 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,087 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,942 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,387 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,909 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,689 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,048 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,684 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,894 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,078 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,727 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,079 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,486 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,231 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,744 | 2.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,008 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,583 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jibril a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jibril has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jibril: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jibril, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,392 Americans ever recorded as Jibril. The median Jibril alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,010 people named Jibril (10 women and girls, 1,000 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,084 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 159 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 584 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 618 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,803 babies since 1880, Jibril is the most given (50% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 127 babies (36%), the second 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 Jibril
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 Jibril and names like it
- Compare Jibril and JibreelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJibril peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jibril since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Jibril.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jibril alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.