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Jabez

#5,479 in 2025Boys' name

Sorrow

Jabez has been given to 1,134 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,479 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Jabez, 2025

1 in 195,000

Jabez over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jabez: meaning, origin, and history

Sorrow

Hebrew

What Jabez means

Jabez means “sorrow”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jabez is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Jabez comes through Hebrew יַעְבֵּץ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jabez is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.bɛz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,134 boys were recorded with the name Jabez between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 102 in 2002; its best national rank was #988 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,599 in 2020 to #5,479 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,122 in 2015 to #5,479 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jabez?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,479
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jabez sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jabez. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jabezs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jabez was born before 2005 — so the typical Jabez is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,107
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (549).

Is Jabez rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+529
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−880
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,357
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.7%
Peak was 2002 (102)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#988
1880

Spellings of Jabez

Jabez is not the most common spelling — James is, with 87.8% against Jabez's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jabez is used

Across 1910–2025, Jabez was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 310,216 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6North Carolina1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jabez has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jabez around the world

Where Jabez ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2005–2016
    #2,748
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1981–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jabez by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,479
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 880
Best rank ever
#988
1880
Peak year
2002
102 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,134
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Jabez

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jabez

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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