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Jewell
Rank in 2024
#9,262
Born in 2024
11
Peak year
1920 · #216
Origin
Celtic, English
Also recorded for boys:6 in 2024 (#11,659)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 11 girls were named Jewell, about 1 in every 146,653.
- It peaked in 1920 with 893 babies, ranked #216.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 29,428 girls have been named Jewell since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jewell per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.7Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 14,601 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Silent: 7,227 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,457 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen X: 977 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 759 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,045 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 338 babies, 0.02 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Medieval/Middle English form of a Breton saint's name, from Old Breton Judicaël "lord" + "generous." The second element is from hael (“generous, bountiful”) and identical to Welsh hael (“generous”) (see that entry for details).
- A male given name from the Celtic languages transferred back from the surname.
- A female given name from English, of rare usage, variant of Jewel.
- Origin
- Celtic, English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jewell, CC BY-SA 4.0.