boys:
26 births since 2001
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
26 births since 2001
#7713 (0th percentile)
The name Jahkel is the #7,713 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 2001.
Jahkel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for boys in 2001). Birth data for Jahkel is available in 5 out of the 20 years between 2001 and 2020. 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, Jahkel reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #900) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jahkel".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Jahkel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Jahkel is pronounced as jah-KEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juh-KEHL, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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