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Jehiel

#6,621 in 2025Boys' name

God will live

Jehiel has been given to 203 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #6,621 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Jehiel, 2025

1 in 255,000

Jehiel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jehiel: meaning, origin, and history

God will live

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jehiel means

Jehiel means “God will live”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 203 boys were recorded with the name Jehiel between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,777 in 2023.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,319 in 2015 to #6,621 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 Jehiel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,621
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jehiel 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jehiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jehiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jehiel was born before 2013 — so the typical Jehiel is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
203
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Jehiel 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
+3,717
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,698
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.3%
Peak was 2023 (16)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,777
2023

Spellings of Jehiel

Jehiel is not the most common spelling — Jaziel is, with 18.2% against Jehiel's 0.40%.

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.

Jehiel around the world

Where Jehiel 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
    2007–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1991–2025
    #3,598
    in 2025

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

Jehiel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,621
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,777
2023
Peak year
2023
16 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
203
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Jehiel

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

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Sibling names for Jehiel

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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