In 2025, 53 US boys were named Jariel, making it the 2,524th most common boys’ name of the year, down 199 places from #2,325 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 61 boys named Jariel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,200, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 151. For comparison, it was #1,631 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jariel in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 2,227 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,097 babies named Jariel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 763 US boys were named Jariel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 113. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,228 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jariel ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #836 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jarrell (4,245 babies since 1880) and Jarell (2,993 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jayriel and Jahriel are summarised on this page.