girls:
41.2k births since 1880
#666 (88th percentile)
boys:
5.2k births since 1880
#1655 (64th percentile)
overall:
46.4k births since 1880
#1132 (85th percentile)
The name Jewel is the #1,132 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 46,402 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #666 (88.4% percentile) for all time with 41,177 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,655 (63.9% percentile) for all time with 5,225 births since 1880.
Jewel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Jewel has been given predominantly to girls, with 88.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Jewel were girls. Interestingly, until around 1881, the name was more popular for boys (50.0% boys from 1880 to 1880), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (88.7% girls from 1881 to 2023).
For girls, Jewel reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 64.1% percentile (ranked #221) with 643 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 783 births per million (ranked 48.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jewel ranks #765 for girls (19.2% percentile) with 107 births per million, which is 13.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jewel reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 25.3% percentile (ranked #412) with 130 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 195 births per million (ranked 10.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jewel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jewel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.6% confident that Jewel is pronounced as JUE-uhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is juel, at 15.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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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 UW1 AH0 L) 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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