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Jahleel

#3,984 in 2025Boys' name

God waits

Jahleel has been given to 1,342 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #3,984 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Jahleel, 2025

1 in 123,000

Jahleel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jahleel: meaning, origin, and history

God waits

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jahleel means

Jahleel means “God waits”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,342 boys were recorded with the name Jahleel between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 61 in 2010; its best national rank was #2,112 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,524 in 2020 to #3,984 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,107 in 2015 to #3,984 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.

How common is Jahleel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,984
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jahleel 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jahleel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jahleels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jahleel was born before 2010 — so the typical Jahleel is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,342
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (473).

Is Jahleel 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
−970
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−460
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−877
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.3%
Peak was 2010 (61)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,112
1995

Spellings of Jahleel

Jahleel is not the most common spelling — Jaleel is, with 30.2% against Jahleel's 8.3%.

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 Jahleel is used

Across 1910–2025, Jahleel was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 233,742 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2Maryland1 in 100,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 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. Jahleel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jahleel around the world

Where Jahleel 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
    2007–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • France
    2009–2025
    #4,197
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Jahleel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,984
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 460
Best rank ever
#2,112
1995
Peak year
2010
61 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,342
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Jahleel

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

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Sibling names for Jahleel

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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