Meaning not yet researched.
Jerel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #732 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #732 in 1950; #8,545 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jerel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,545 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #732.
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Jerel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #732 in 1950 · most boys in one year: 166 (1989).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Jerel, making it the 8,545th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #732, reached in 1950. The most boys given the name in a single year was 166, in 1989. For comparison, it was #4,621 in 2015 and #732 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jerel in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 5 babies. In all, 3,617 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 960 babies named Jerel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 109 US boys were named Jerel; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jerrell (7,298 babies since 1880), Jeryl (1,831 babies since 1880) and Jerell (1,682 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeral, Jerol and Jerail 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: Jeral (431), Jerol (140), Jerail (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 Jerel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 9 | #8,545 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,189 |
| 2022 | — | — | 11 | #7,485 |
| 2021 | — | — | 13 | #6,488 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,235 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,242 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #7,859 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,194 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,660 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,621 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,183 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,880 |
| 2012 | — | — | 22 | #4,457 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,577 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,132 |
| 2009 | — | — | 23 | #4,354 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,616 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,308 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,428 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,926 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,622 |
| 2003 | — | — | 19 | #4,341 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,221 |
| 2001 | — | — | 32 | #2,894 |
| 2000 | — | — | 26 | #3,253 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,376 |
| 1998 | — | — | 38 | #2,332 |
| 1997 | — | — | 42 | #2,114 |
| 1996 | — | — | 55 | #1,719 |
| 1995 | — | — | 62 | #1,537 |
| 1994 | — | — | 80 | #1,306 |
| 1993 | — | — | 89 | #1,189 |
| 1992 | — | — | 126 | #957 |
| 1991 | — | — | 126 | #950 |
| 1990 | — | — | 141 | #862 |
| 1989 | — | — | 166 | #770 |
| 1988 | — | — | 165 | #736 |
| 1987 | — | — | 147 | #753 |
| 1986 | — | — | 123 | #819 |
| 1985 | — | — | 66 | #1,153 |
| 1984 | — | — | 54 | #1,257 |
| 1983 | — | — | 63 | #1,136 |
| 1982 | — | — | 64 | #1,143 |
| 1981 | — | — | 57 | #1,213 |
| 1980 | — | — | 55 | #1,248 |
| 1979 | — | — | 54 | #1,256 |
| 1978 | — | — | 42 | #1,446 |
| 1977 | — | — | 59 | #1,131 |
| 1976 | — | — | 35 | #1,556 |
| 1975 | — | — | 64 | #1,034 |
| 1974 | — | — | 66 | #1,012 |
| 1973 | — | — | 68 | #982 |
| 1972 | — | — | 72 | #956 |
| 1971 | — | — | 62 | #1,038 |
| 1970 | — | — | 93 | #837 |
| 1969 | — | — | 65 | #953 |
| 1968 | — | — | 50 | #1,051 |
| 1967 | — | — | 31 | #1,377 |
| 1966 | — | — | 22 | #1,670 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,177 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,475 |
| 1962 | — | — | 11 | #2,585 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,994 |
| 1960 | — | — | 12 | #2,473 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,727 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,434 |
| 1957 | — | — | 18 | #1,921 |
| 1956 | — | — | 22 | #1,697 |
| 1955 | — | — | 20 | #1,757 |
| 1954 | — | — | 27 | #1,482 |
| 1953 | — | — | 35 | #1,268 |
| 1952 | — | — | 50 | #1,018 |
| 1951 | — | — | 73 | #825 |
| 1950 | — | — | 88 | #732 |
| 1949 | — | — | 87 | #739 |
| 1948 | — | — | 54 | #949 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,674 | 46 | #1,074 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,204 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,156 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,385 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,763 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,784 |
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).