girls:
29.4k births since 1880
#831 (85th percentile)
boys:
4.7k births since 1883
#1765 (62nd percentile)
overall:
34.1k births since 1880
#1361 (82nd percentile)
The name Jewell is the #1,361 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 34,089 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #831 (85.5% percentile) for all time with 29,416 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,765 (61.5% percentile) for all time with 4,673 births since 1883.
Jewell has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1883 for boys). Birth data for Jewell is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for girls and 131 years for boys). 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 Jewell has been given predominantly to girls, with 86.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 72.2% of babies named Jewell were girls.
For girls, Jewell reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 65.1% percentile (ranked #213) with 718 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 863 births per million (ranked 57.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jewell ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jewell reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 23.8% percentile (ranked #420) with 123 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 180 births per million (ranked 8.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jewell ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jewell".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jewell", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 13 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jewel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jewel..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Jewell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.7% confident that Jewell is pronounced as JUE-ehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUE-uhl, at 24.5% confidence, with 2 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 EH0 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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