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Jahel

#5,104 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Jael

Jahel has been given to 302 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #5,104 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Jahel, 2025

1 in 174,000

Jahel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jahel: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jahel means

Jahel is a variant of Jael.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jahel → Jael → יעל. The family’s meaning is “ibex”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements יעל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 292 boys were recorded with the name Jahel between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,154 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,602 in 2020 to #5,104 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,832 in 2015 to #5,104 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Jahel between 2003 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2003; its best national rank was #16,740 in 2003.

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 Jahel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,104
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jahel 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jahels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahel was born before 2017 — so the typical Jahel is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
292
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (113).

Is Jahel 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
+205
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−502
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,728
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.58×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.1%
Peak was 2023 (26)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,154
2023

Spellings of Jahel

Jahel is not the most common spelling — James is, with 80.5% against Jahel's <0.01%.

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 Jahel is used

Across 1910–2025, Jahel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,790,560 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Jahel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jahel around the world

Where Jahel 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.

  • France
    1999–2025
    #3,122
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Jahel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,104
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 502
Best rank ever
#4,154
2023
Peak year
2023
26 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
292
Count in 2025
19

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,740
2003
Peak year
2003
5 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jahel

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

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Sibling names for Jahel

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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