Jael
#1,388 for girls in 2025, 157 births · #1,315 for boys in 2025, 147 births
Given to girls 57.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 206 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,561since 1957
Jael over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,388 | 157 | #1,315 | 147 |
| 2024 | #1,466 | 149 | #1,364 | 138 |
| 2023 | #1,578 | 134 | #1,294 | 148 |
| 2022 | #1,515 | 143 | #1,457 | 124 |
| 2021 | #1,600 | 131 | #1,325 | 140 |
| 2020 | #1,632 | 127 | #1,177 | 163 |
| 2019 | #1,441 | 154 | #1,347 | 133 |
| 2018 | #1,313 | 173 | #1,364 | 129 |
| 2017 | #1,505 | 147 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #1,545 | 145 | #1,295 | 140 |
| 2015 | #1,501 | 152 | #1,359 | 128 |
| 2014 | #1,427 | 159 | #1,375 | 124 |
| 2013 | #1,321 | 177 | #1,128 | 161 |
| 2012 | #1,196 | 206 | #983 | 203 |
| 2011 | #1,446 | 156 | #1,411 | 117 |
| 2010 | #1,420 | 161 | #1,219 | 145 |
| 2009 | #1,695 | 131 | #1,173 | 154 |
| 2008 | #1,421 | 167 | #1,348 | 127 |
| 2007 | #1,381 | 175 | #1,206 | 146 |
| 2006 | #1,918 | 105 | #1,479 | 103 |
| 2005 | #2,122 | 87 | #1,334 | 113 |
| 2004 | #2,135 | 84 | #1,565 | 84 |
| 2003 | #1,845 | 100 | #1,845 | 64 |
| 2002 | #1,887 | 94 | #1,998 | 55 |
| 2001 | #2,151 | 76 | #2,306 | 43 |
| 2000 | #1,938 | 87 | #3,423 | 24 |
| 1999 | #2,018 | 77 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #2,188 | 65 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | #2,450 | 53 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #2,041 | 68 | #5,187 | 11 |
| 1995 | #2,552 | 49 | #3,100 | 22 |
| 1994 | #2,503 | 50 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #3,108 | 37 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #3,165 | 31 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #2,780 | 35 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #3,360 | 26 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #3,170 | 28 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #3,144 | 27 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #2,525 | 36 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,259 | 21 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,635 | 17 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
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| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jael! It came in at #3,150, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1964, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jael
- 78 spots since 2024 (#1,466 → #1,388)
- 244 spots since 2020 (#1,632 → #1,388)
- 113 spots since 2015 (#1,501 → #1,388)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2012 at #1,196 (206 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,549 girls born in 2012 were named Jael (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,237 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.7% of all girls named Jael (1,630) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2023, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 14 | #3,150 (1957) | #3,150 |
| 1960s | 25 | #4,489 (1968) | #5,121 |
| 1970s | 156 | #2,525 (1979) | #4,631 |
| 1980s | 279 | #2,780 (1987) | #3,242 |
| 1990s | 510 | #2,018 (1999) | #2,601 |
| 2000s | 1,106 | #1,381 (2007) | #1,849 |
| 2010s | 1,630 | #1,196 (2012) | #1,412 |
| 2020s | 841 | #1,388 (2025) | #1,530 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jael in 1957
Top girls' names in 1957
More about 1957
girls
2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 146,061 of them was named Jael, which outranked 55.1% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,033Vici15
- #3,033Violetta15
- #3,033Wanetta15
- #3,150Jael14
- #3,150Alvena14
- #3,150Alvera14
- #3,150Ariane14
- #3,309Aleatha13
- #3,309Aleen13
- #3,309Alfred13
Tied with 158 names at #3,150; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.