Jorel
Jorel was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,274 among boys’ names; 1,089 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,060 Americans named Jorel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jorel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jorel?
#9,274 among boys’ names, 2025
Jorel fell from #3,628 in 2015 to #9,274 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 4.7 per million.
49 babies in 1985, the peak
Jorel peaked in 1985, when 49 boys were given it, #1,401 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,274 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,765 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,490 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,643 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,337 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,128 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,245 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,408 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,833 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,252 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,628 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,683 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,537 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,936 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 31 | #3,473 | 16.3 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,168 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,358 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,977 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,156 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,474 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,666 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,338 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,897 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,796 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,210 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,286 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,074 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,098 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,100 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,749 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,391 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,945 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,172 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,524 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,777 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,229 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 30 | #2,264 | 15.0 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,107 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 38 | #1,741 | 20.4 |
| 1986 | 37 | #1,708 | 20.1 |
| 1985 | 49 | #1,401 | 26.5 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,813 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,799 | 17.3 |
| 1982 | 44 | #1,451 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 27 | #2,016 | 15.1 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,981 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,275 | 12.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jorel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jorel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jorel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jorel, and how old are they?
1,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,089 Americans ever recorded as Jorel. The median Jorel alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,068 people named Jorel (13 women and girls, 1,055 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 402 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 357 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 267 |
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 1,951 babies since 1880, Jorel is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 51 babies (16%), 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 Jorel
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 Jorel and names like it
- Compare Jorel and JorellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJorel peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jorel since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Jorel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jorel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.