Meaning not yet researched.
Jaleel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 77 in 2025. Its best rank was #652 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #652 in 1994; #1,983 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jaleel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,983 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #652.
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Jaleel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 77 boys in 2025. Peak: #652 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 255 (1994).
In 2025, 77 US boys were named Jaleel, making it the 1,983rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 373 places from #2,356 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 60 boys named Jaleel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #652, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 255. For comparison, it was #1,630 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jaleel in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 6 babies. In all, 4,930 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,799 babies named Jaleel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 910 US boys were named Jaleel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 108. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,183 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jaleel ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #898 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jahlil (2,468 babies since 1880), Jalil (2,915 babies since 1880) and Jahleel (1,342 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jalal, Jaleal and Jaliel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jalal (755), Jaleal (184), Jaliel (167), Jaleil (80), Jahliel (38), Jalill (12), Jaliyl (11), Jalaal (10), Jahleal (10), Jahleil (8).
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 Jaleel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 9 | #898 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #948 | #869 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,714 | #1,801 |
| California | 5 | #2,608 | #2,127 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 77 | #1,983 |
| 2024 | — | — | 60 | #2,356 |
| 2023 | — | — | 80 | #1,945 |
| 2022 | — | — | 98 | #1,726 |
| 2021 | — | — | 104 | #1,624 |
| 2020 | — | — | 89 | #1,737 |
| 2019 | — | — | 108 | #1,555 |
| 2018 | — | — | 89 | #1,739 |
| 2017 | — | — | 106 | #1,546 |
| 2016 | — | — | 99 | #1,622 |
| 2015 | — | — | 98 | #1,630 |
| 2014 | — | — | 109 | #1,488 |
| 2013 | — | — | 124 | #1,364 |
| 2012 | — | — | 157 | #1,164 |
| 2011 | — | — | 143 | #1,224 |
| 2010 | — | — | 156 | #1,174 |
| 2009 | — | — | 163 | #1,132 |
| 2008 | — | — | 136 | #1,278 |
| 2007 | — | — | 111 | #1,452 |
| 2006 | — | — | 98 | #1,528 |
| 2005 | — | — | 133 | #1,199 |
| 2004 | — | — | 178 | #946 |
| 2003 | — | — | 141 | #1,094 |
| 2002 | — | — | 72 | #1,653 |
| 2001 | — | — | 107 | #1,248 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,322 | 148 | #1,001 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,355 | 162 | #917 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,086 | 183 | #818 |
| 1997 | — | — | 205 | #739 |
| 1996 | — | — | 204 | #745 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,979 | 237 | #690 |
| 1994 | — | — | 255 | #652 |
| 1993 | — | — | 158 | #842 |
| 1992 | — | — | 205 | #721 |
| 1991 | — | — | 144 | #879 |
| 1990 | — | — | 29 | #2,399 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,869 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,291 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,435 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,829 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,491 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,690 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,664 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,061 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,213 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,350 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,629 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #2,979 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,681 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,856 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,050 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,632 |
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).