Jayel
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jayel has been given to 173 babies in the U.S. since 2007. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 50% girls, 50% boys all-time.
Babies named Jayel, 2020
1 in 668,000
Jayel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jayel over time
In 2020, Jayel went to 33% girls and 67% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jayel?
Jayel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 668,000
- 5 of 3,342,313 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 323,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,344 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jayel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jayel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jayels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jayel was born before 2012 — so the typical Jayel is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 87
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Jayel 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2007 (11)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.4% average annual change
Spellings of Jayel
Jayel is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 28.1% against Jayel'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 Jayel is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Jayel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Jayel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jayel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jayel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jayel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.