How rare is the name Jewell?

9,252 people in the United States have the first name Jewell, about 1 in 32,645. It ranks #2,597 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JEWELL

#2,597

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,252
About
1 in 32,645
This common or more
80.3%
Who bears it

Of the 9,252 people named Jewell, 65.3% reported their origin as White, 26.4% as Black and 3.9% as two or more races. 86.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jewell peaked in 1920, when 1,004 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
1,004
In 2025*
19 ▼98%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 34,126 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jewell by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #285. The largest share of babies named Jewell, 48.5%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1,121126
1890s#492835
1900s#2852,525
1910s#3546,810
1920s#3888,799
1930s#5284,733
1940s#7273,661
1950s#1,1332,097
1960s#1,5871,271
1970s#2,454671
1980s#3,190554
1990s#3,263740
2000s#4,137737
2010s#6,090447
2020s#10,307120
Before 19013.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2748.5%
Silent Generation 1928–4524.9%
Baby boom 1946–6412.2%
Generation X 1965–803.7%
Millennials 1981–962.8%
Generation Z 1997–123.4%
2013 and later1.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jewell is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jewell has been most common in Arkansas (7.1×), Kentucky (6.3×), and Oklahoma (4.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.05×).

24,228 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Jewell

#2,595 Leyla · 9,255#2,596 Aliya · 9,253#2,598 Mandi · 9,243#2,599 Donnell · 9,239

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jewell, most common first.

#1,622 Jewel · 19,581#29,086 Jewelle · 306

Also a last name

As a last name, Jewell ranks #1,564 of 156,621, with 22,347 people. See Jewell as a last name

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