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Jibril

#2,779 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Gabriel

Jibril has been given to 1,392 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,779 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Jibril, 2025

1 in 72,100

Jibril over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jibril: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Gabriel

Arabic

What Jibril means

Jibril is a form of Gabriel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Jibril is a form of Gabriel. Gabriel has more than one origin or interpretation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic جِبْرِيل (jibrīl). Doublet of Gabriel.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jibril (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jibril is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Jibril comes through Arabic جِبْرِيل.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gabriel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,392 boys were recorded with the name Jibril between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,020 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,781 in 2020 to #2,779 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,700 in 2015 to #2,779 in 2025.

How common is Jibril?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 37,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,779
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jibril 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jibril. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jibrils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jibril was born before 2011 — so the typical Jibril is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,392
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.9% of all recorded uses (458).

Is Jibril 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
−347
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−79
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.02×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2009 (69)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,020
2009

Spellings of Jibril

Jibril is not the most common spelling — Jabril is, with 32.6% against Jibril's 27.1%.

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 Jibril is used

Across 1910–2025, Jibril was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 303,112 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Maryland1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Jibril has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jibril around the world

Where Jibril 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • France
    1983–2025
    #481
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jibril by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,779
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2
Best rank ever
#2,020
2009
Peak year
2009
69 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,392
Count in 2025
46

Names similar to Jibril

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

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Sibling names for Jibril

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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