girls:
5 births since 1947
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.6k births since 1937
#2067 (55th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1937
#4557 (41st percentile)
The name Jerel is the #4,557 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,608 recorded births since 1937. This represents the 41.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,067 (54.9% percentile) for all time with 3,603 births since 1937. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1947.
Jerel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1937 (1937 for boys and 1947 for girls). Birth data for Jerel is available in 81 out of the 87 years between 1937 and 2023 (81 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 Jerel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jerel reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 21.9% percentile (ranked #567) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 82 births per million (ranked 21.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jerel ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jerel reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #685) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1947, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1947.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jerel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jerel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.8% confident that Jerel is pronounced as JEH-ruhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jer-EHL, at 23.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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