Meaning not yet researched.
Jowell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,640 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,640 in 2011; #8,563 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jowell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,563 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,640.
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Jowell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,640 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 93 (2011).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Jowell, making it the 8,563rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 82 places from #8,645 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 9 boys named Jowell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,640, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 93. For comparison, it was #3,186 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jowell in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 806 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 509 babies named Jowell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 193 US boys were named Jowell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jowel, Juwell and Juwel 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jowel (84), Juwell (10), Juwel (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 Jowell 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 | #8,563 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,645 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,564 |
| 2022 | — | — | 18 | #5,315 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,231 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,620 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,442 |
| 2018 | — | — | 24 | #4,295 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,172 |
| 2016 | — | — | 35 | #3,260 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,186 |
| 2014 | — | — | 62 | #2,188 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,381 |
| 2012 | — | — | 72 | #1,974 |
| 2011 | — | — | 93 | #1,640 |
| 2010 | — | — | 92 | #1,681 |
| 2009 | — | — | 83 | #1,803 |
| 2008 | — | — | 77 | #1,885 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,570 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,105 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,342 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,432 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,019 | — | — |
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).