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Jewel

Rank in 2024
#9,451
Born in 2024
8
Peak year
1926 · #493
Origin
English
Also recorded for girls:159 in 2024 (#1,400)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 8 boys were named Jewel, about 1 in every 214,414.
  • It peaked in 1926 with 149 babies, ranked #493.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 5,233 boys 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.

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    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
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    Boomers
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    Gen X
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    Millennials
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    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,048 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Silent: 1,464 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 730 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 306 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 240 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 189 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 131 babies, 0.01 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
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Jewel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Jewell

    Rank
    #11,659
    Born '24
    6
    Origin
    Celtic
    1880peak 19232024