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Jezabel

#15,949 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Jezebel

Jezabel has been given to 644 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #15,949 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Jezabel, 2025

1 in 663,000

Jezabel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jezabel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jezebel

Hebrew

What Jezabel means

Jezabel is a form of Jezebel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jezabel is used in Biblical Spanish and Biblical Portuguese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /xe.θa.ˈβel/ and /xe.sa.ˈβel/ for Jezabel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jezabel → Jezebel. The family’s proposed meaning is “to exalt, to dwell”, recorded in the naming reference for Jezebel.

Origin, language, and formation

Jezabel is used in Portuguese. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jezebel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Jezabel is pronounced /ʒe.zaˈbɛw/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 644 girls were recorded with the name Jezabel between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,396 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,368 in 2020 to #15,949 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,571 in 2015 to #15,949 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jezabel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,949
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jezabel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jezabel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jezabels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jezabel was born before 2009 — so the typical Jezabel is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
644
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (223).

Is Jezabel 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
−9,917
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−8,581
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,378
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.26×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.2%
Peak was 2014 (33)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,396
2014

Spellings of Jezabel

Jezabel is not the most common spelling — Izabel is, with 72.7% against Jezabel's 12.3%.

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 Jezabel is used

Across 1910–2025, Jezabel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 166,748 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Jezabel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jezabel around the world

Where Jezabel 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.

  • France
    1957–2015
    #5,081
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1994–2008
    #2,486
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Jezabel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,949
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 8,581
Best rank ever
#4,396
2014
Peak year
2014
33 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
644
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Jezabel

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

JezebelJezelleRosabelMirabelRosibelJezlynJezreelMaybelMarybelYsabelMaebelArisbelArabelClaribelRebelSibelChristabelIsobelIzabelJezlynnCrisbelClarabelMarisabelJezabelle

Sibling names for Jezabel

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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