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Jezebel

#10,461 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly to exalt, to dwell

Jezebel has been given to 787 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #10,461 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Jezebel, 2025

1 in 368,000

Jezebel over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jezebel: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to exalt, to dwell

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jezebel means

Jezebel may mean “to exalt, to dwell”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jezebel is used in Portuguese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 787 girls were recorded with the name Jezebel between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,503 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,960 in 2020 to #10,461 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,556 in 2015 to #10,461 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 Jezebel?

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 girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,461
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Jezebels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jezebel was born before 2007 — so the typical Jezebel is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
787
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (290).

Is Jezebel 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
+3,782
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,501
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,905
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.1%
Peak was 2007 (47)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,503
2007

Spellings of Jezebel

Jezebel is the most-used spelling, taking 55.0% of the 1,431 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Jezebel is used

Across 1910–2025, Jezebel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 155,520 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 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. Jezebel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jezebel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,461
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,501
Best rank ever
#3,503
2007
Peak year
2007
47 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
787
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Jezebel

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

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Sibling names for Jezebel

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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