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Jewel

Rank in 2024
#1,400
Born in 2024
159
Peak year
1920 · #228
Origin
English
Also recorded for boys:8 in 2024 (#9,451)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 159 girls were named Jewel, about 1 in every 10,146.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 826 babies, ranked #228.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 41,338 girls have been named Jewel since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Jewel per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.7
    Greatest
  2. 0.4
    Silent
  3. 0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 13,773 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Silent: 8,573 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,128 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,888 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,232 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,647 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,143 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From jewel.

  • A female given name from English from the noun jewel, used since the end of the 19th century.
  • A male given name from English, a variant of Jewell, or from "jewel" like the female name.
Origin
English
Say it
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Jewel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Jewell

    Rank
    #9,262
    Born '24
    11
    Origin
    Celtic
    1880peak 19202024