Jemel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jemel has been given to 724 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1989, with 29 recorded.
Babies named Jemel, 2023
1 in 663,000
Jemel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jemel?
Jemel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jemel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jemel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jemels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jemel was born before 1988 — so the typical Jemel is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 31.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 24.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 724
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (229).
Is Jemel 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (29)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.2% average annual change
Spellings of Jemel
Jemel is not the most common spelling — James is, with 92.0% against Jemel'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 Jemel is used
Across 1910–2025, Jemel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 119,713 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3North Carolina1 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. Jemel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jemel around the world
Where Jemel 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 & Wales1997–2004#3,651in 2004
- France1957–1988#2,453in 1988
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.
Jemel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jemel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jemel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.