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Jerel

#8,541 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jerel has been given to 3,617 babies in the U.S. since 1937. In 2025 it ranked #8,541 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 166 recorded.

Babies named Jerel, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jerel: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jerel means

Jerel is a given name.

The naming story behind Jerel

Wikidata records Jerel as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q73901020, 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, 3,612 boys were recorded with the name Jerel between 1937 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 166 in 1989; its best national rank was #731 in 1950.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,230 in 2020 to #8,541 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,619 in 2015 to #8,541 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Jerel between 1947 and 1947. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1947; its best national rank was #5,672 in 1947.

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 Jerel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,541
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jerel 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jerel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jerel was born before 1986 — so the typical Jerel is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,391
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (960).

Is Jerel 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
−1,311
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,922
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.4%
Peak was 1989 (166)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#731
1950

Spellings of Jerel

Jerel is not the most common spelling — Jerry is, with 31.4% against Jerel's 0.18%.

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 Jerel is used

Across 1910–2025, Jerel was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 108,485 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 50,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 100,000

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. Jerel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jerel around the world

Where Jerel 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.

  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jerel

People whose public names include Jerel, 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.

Jerel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,541
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,311
Best rank ever
#731
1950
Peak year
1989
166 that year
First recorded
1937
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,612
Count in 2025
9

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,672
1947
Peak year
1947
5 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
1947
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jerel

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

JerrelJeredJeronJerodJeromyJeriahJeradTyrelJerronJerellJeremiJermiahJeremieJerrodJermelDarelJersonJerielJeranJerichoJerrickJermainJerickJere

Names with a curve like Jerel

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

JoryKelseyArnaldoGeraldoLamarrMiquelRonnellToreyDerrekJaymeBenjamenRondell

Sibling names for Jerel

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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