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 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 8,549 of them was named Jael, which outranked 93.9% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 9,345 of them was named Jael, which outranked 93.1% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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Tied with 5 names at #983; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.