Jowell
#8,559 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jowell has been given to 806 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #8,559 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 93 recorded.
Babies named Jowell, 2025
1 in 368,000
Jowell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jowell?
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
- #8,559
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jowell sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jowell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jowells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jowell was born before 2012 — so the typical Jowell is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 63.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 801
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 63.5% of all recorded uses (509).
Is Jowell 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
- +81
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,943
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,374
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.25×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.7%
- Peak was 2011 (93)
- Years since peak
- 14
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.4% average annual change
Spellings of Jowell
Jowell is not the most common spelling — Joel is, with 72.7% against Jowell's 0.21%.
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 Jowell is used
Across 1910–2025, Jowell was most concentrated in Connecticut — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 239,814 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Connecticut1 in 100,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Massachusetts1 in 100,000
- 4New York1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Maryland1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 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. Jowell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jowell around the world
Where Jowell 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.
- France2018–2018#6,535in 2018
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Jowell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jowell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jowell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.