Jabez

boys:

1.1k births since 1880

#3500 (24th percentile)

overall:

1.1k births since 1880

#6638 (14th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Jabez is the #6,638 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,101 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 14.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,500 (23.6% percentile) for all time with 1,101 births since 1880.

Jabez has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Jabez is available in 50 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For boys, Jabez reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 11.9% percentile (ranked #716) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 49 births per million (ranked 11.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jabez ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 11.1% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jabez".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
1,101
Peak Births
102
Peak Year
2002
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
11.9%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#716
Current Rank
#906
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Jabez

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jabez. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 88.9% confident that Jabez is pronounced as JAY-behz, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JAY-bihz, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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88.9%
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11.1%
JAY-behz (2 syllables)
88.9% confidence
JH EY1 B EH0 Z
JAY-bihz (2 syllables)
11.1% confidence
JH EY1 B IH0 Z

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like JH EY1 B EH0 Z) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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