Juel
#4,941 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Juel has been given to 1,726 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #4,941 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 40 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% boys, 38% girls all-time.
Babies named Juel, 2025
1 in 166,000
Juel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Juel over time
In 2025, Juel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Juel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,941
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Juel 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Juel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Juels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Juel was born before 2008 — so the typical Juel is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 30.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 733
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (324).
Is Juel 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
- −1,205
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −870
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,943
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.51×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2006 (40)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.7% average annual change
Spellings of Juel
Juel is not the most common spelling — Joe is, with 28.5% against Juel's 0.07%.
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 Juel is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Juel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 777,111 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Minnesota1 in —
- 5Missouri1 in —
- 6North Carolina1 in —
- 7New Jersey1 in —
- 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. Juel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Juel is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Juel was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 438,026 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 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. Juel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Juel around the world
Where Juel 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 & Wales2005–2011#4,647in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Juel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Juel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Juel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.