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Jaleel

#1,983 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jaleel has been given to 4,930 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,983 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 255 recorded.

Babies named Jaleel, 2025

1 in 43,100

Jaleel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaleel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaleel means

Jaleel is a given name.

The naming story behind Jaleel

Wikidata records Jaleel as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q104904382, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,906 boys were recorded with the name Jaleel between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 255 in 1994; its best national rank was #651 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,737 in 2020 to #1,983 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,630 in 2015 to #1,983 in 2025.

In the United States, 24 girls were recorded with the name Jaleel between 1995 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1995; its best national rank was #10,974 in 1995.

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 Jaleel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,100
77 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 22,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,983
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,844 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaleel 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,844 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaleel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jaleels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jaleel was born before 2004 — so the typical Jaleel is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,906
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (1,782).

Is Jaleel 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
+373
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−246
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−353
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.2%
Peak was 1994 (255)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#651
1994

Spellings of Jaleel

Jaleel is not the most common spelling — Jalen is, with 34.9% against Jaleel's 4.2%.

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 Jaleel is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaleel was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 22,234 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 7,692
  2. 2Maryland1 in 8,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 11,111
  4. 4Illinois1 in 14,286
  5. 5Virginia1 in 14,286
  6. 6Ohio1 in 16,667
  7. 7Florida1 in 20,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 20,000

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.

Jaleel around the world

Where Jaleel 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #1,980
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #543
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jaleel

People whose public names include Jaleel, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jaleel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jaleel. Linked forms have their own page here.

JalilJahlil

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jaleel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,983
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 246
Best rank ever
#651
1994
Peak year
1994
255 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,906
Count in 2025
77

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,974
1995
Peak year
1995
7 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jaleel

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

JalilJalonJameelJalinJalynJalaniJalanJalynnJalalNabeelJalenJaloniNeelJahleelKhaleelKaleelJibreelSteelJalikJaleenJezreelIsmaeelAdeelJaleal

Names with a curve like Jaleel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jaleel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jaleel

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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