girls:
6 births since 2009
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1925
#3459 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1925
#6590 (15th percentile)
The name Jarel is the #6,590 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,150 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 14.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,459 (24.5% percentile) for all time with 1,144 births since 1925. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2009.
Jarel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for boys and 2009 for girls). Birth data for Jarel is available in 50 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Jarel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jarel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #721) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 19 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jarel ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 40.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jarel reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #958) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jarel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jarel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.1% confident that Jarel is pronounced as juh-REHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jer-EHL, at 23.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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