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Jarel

Jarel is a boy's name that peaked in 1990, when it was the 1,870th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 1,100 Jarels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Jarel boys named Jarel

By the numbers

Total US births
1,166
Estimated living today
1,100
Median age today
26
Peak year
1990
Best rank
1,870th
Rank in 2025
7,679th
First recorded
1925
Girls / boys
6 / 1,160

How old the living Jarels are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,166 babies given the name since 1925, about 1,100 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Jarel is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Jarel is most concentrated in New York (6.9×), California (3.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular boys’ names the year Jarel peaked:

All the names of 1990

Jarel elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Jarel 15 5,108th
England and Wales boys Jarel 3 3,225th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Jarel among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Jarel 6 7

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.