Jabez
#5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,134since 1880
Jabez over time
Rank among boys' names. Jabez has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #3,993 | 26 |
| 2016 | #4,098 | 25 |
| 2015 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #2,663 | 45 |
| 2010 | #2,826 | 42 |
| 2009 | #2,847 | 42 |
| 2008 | #3,344 | 33 |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2006 | #2,784 | 41 |
| 2005 | #2,061 | 60 |
| 2004 | #2,051 | 58 |
| 2003 | #1,702 | 72 |
| 2002 | #1,305 | 102 |
| 2001 | #1,390 | 90 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
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| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
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| 1971 | #4,907 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #2,942 | 8 |
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| 1921 | #3,869 | 6 |
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| 1919 | #4,168 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #3,516 | 6 |
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| 1884 | #971 | 5 |
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| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Jabez was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1915, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jabez
- 505 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #5,399)
- 859 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #5,399)
- 1,319 spots since 2015 (#4,080 → #5,399)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #909 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1880–1884
- Highest: 1 in 19,034 boys born in 2002 were named Jabez (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #909 in 1880, was only 1 in 22,098 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.4% of all boys named Jabez (549) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | #909 (1880) | #940 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 11 | #3,516 (1916) | #3,842 |
| 1920s | 6 | #3,869 (1921) | #3,869 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 8 | #2,942 (1954) | #2,942 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 33 | #3,941 (1975) | #4,764 |
| 1980s | 45 | #4,495 (1980) | #5,643 |
| 1990s | 69 | #3,971 (1990) | #6,554 |
| 2000s | 549 | #1,305 (2002) | #2,928 |
| 2010s | 309 | #2,663 (2011) | #3,629 |
| 2020s | 94 | #4,540 (2020) | #5,807 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jabez in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 21,588 of them was named Jabez, which outranked 88.7% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,387Foster91
- #1,387Shlomo91
- #1,387Tyshaun91
- #1,390Jabez90
- #1,390Donavin90
- #1,390Luther90
- #1,390Marcanthony90
- #1,400Amani89
- #1,400Aries89
- #1,400Avraham89
Tied with 9 names at #1,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.