Jewel

Where Jewel comes from

From jewel.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jewel
  • English
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1904
    Peak, #198
    229 babies named Jewel — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,019.
  4. 1974
    Jewel born
    American singer-songwriter
  5. 1982
    Jewel Staite born
    Canadian actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.
  • A male given name from English, a variant of Jewell, or from "jewel" like the female name.
Namesakes
  • Jewel · American singer-songwriter, born 1974
  • Jewel Staite · Canadian actress, born 1982
  • Jewel Taylor · Liberian politician, senator from Bong County, born 1963
  • Jewel · American pornographic actress, born 1976
  • Jewel Plummer Cobb · American biologist, 1924–2017

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.