Jezel
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jezel has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 1983. 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 2009, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Jezel, 2017
1 in 715,000
Jezel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jezel?
Jezel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jezel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jezel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jezels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jezel was born before 2006 — so the typical Jezel is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 57.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 168
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 57.7% of all recorded uses (97).
Is Jezel 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 2009 (18)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.0% average annual change
Spellings of Jezel
Jezel is not the most common spelling — Hazel is, with 70.0% against Jezel's 0.04%.
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 Jezel is used
Across 1910–2025, Jezel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Jezel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jezel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jezel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jezel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.