Meaning not yet researched.
Jael: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 157 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,197 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,197 in 2012; #1,393 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Jael in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,393 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,197.
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Jael: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 157 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,197 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 206 (2012).
In 2025, 157 US girls were named Jael, making it the 1,393rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 75 places from #1,468 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 149 girls named Jael in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,197, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 206. For comparison, it was #1,501 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 147 US boys were named Jael, making it the 1,317th most common boys’ name of the year, up 47 places from #1,364 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 138 boys named Jael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #987, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 203. For comparison, it was #1,364 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jael in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 14 babies. In all, 7,948 US babies have been given the name, 57% of them girls and 43% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,046 babies named Jael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,460 US girls were named Jael; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 173. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,237 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jael ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #588 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yael (9,708 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jaelle, Jahel and Jaiel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jaelle (674), Jahel (302), Jaiel (218), Jayel (173), Jayle (87), Jahiel (28), Jal (17), Jaell (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 9 | #588 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #841 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #895 | #827 |
| Florida | 17 | #930 | #1,300 |
| Georgia | 10 | #939 | #1,231 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,159 | #1,159 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,201 | #1,355 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,253 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,329 | #1,439 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,342 | #1,474 |
| New York | 7 | #1,727 | #1,424 |
| California | 10 | #2,009 | #1,274 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 157 | #1,393 | 147 | #1,317 |
| 2024 | 149 | #1,468 | 138 | #1,364 |
| 2023 | 134 | #1,578 | 148 | #1,295 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,515 | 124 | #1,461 |
| 2021 | 131 | #1,605 | 140 | #1,328 |
| 2020 | 127 | #1,636 | 163 | #1,184 |
| 2019 | 154 | #1,444 | 133 | #1,349 |
| 2018 | 173 | #1,316 | 129 | #1,370 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,509 | 136 | #1,326 |
| 2016 | 145 | #1,547 | 140 | #1,301 |
| 2015 | 152 | #1,501 | 128 | #1,364 |
| 2014 | 159 | #1,429 | 124 | #1,380 |
| 2013 | 177 | #1,327 | 161 | #1,130 |
| 2012 | 206 | #1,197 | 203 | #987 |
| 2011 | 156 | #1,446 | 117 | #1,421 |
| 2010 | 161 | #1,423 | 145 | #1,221 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,698 | 154 | #1,176 |
| 2008 | 167 | #1,423 | 127 | #1,351 |
| 2007 | 175 | #1,383 | 146 | #1,211 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,924 | 103 | #1,483 |
| 2005 | 87 | #2,129 | 113 | #1,337 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,141 | 84 | #1,572 |
| 2003 | 100 | #1,850 | 64 | #1,857 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,890 | 55 | #2,009 |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,158 | 43 | #2,321 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,944 | 24 | #3,465 |
| 1999 | 77 | #2,026 | 19 | #3,900 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,205 | 20 | #3,637 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,459 | 20 | #3,513 |
| 1996 | 68 | #2,047 | 11 | #5,325 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,565 | 22 | #3,139 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,516 | 14 | #4,397 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,122 | 15 | #4,108 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,886 | 10 | #5,387 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,238 | 10 | #5,263 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,893 | 6 | #7,360 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,182 | 7 | #6,041 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,800 | 9 | #4,716 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,392 | 9 | #4,623 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,187 | 9 | #4,472 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,471 | 7 | #5,142 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,694 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,896 | 5 | #6,659 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,547 | 5 | #6,459 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,140 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,996 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,135 | — | — |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,624 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,738 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,406 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,192 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,600 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,080 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,204 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).