girls:
653 births since 1893
#5063 (11th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1912
#3571 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1893
#6074 (21st percentile)
The name Juel is the #6,074 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,675 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 21.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,571 (22.1% percentile) for all time with 1,022 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,063 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 653 births since 1893.
Juel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Juel is available in 91 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (77 years for girls and 64 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 Juel has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (61.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Juel were boys. Interestingly, until around 1923, the name was more popular for girls (59.7% girls from 1893 to 1922), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (66.1% boys from 1923 to 2023).
For boys, Juel reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #840) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Juel ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 73.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Juel reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #596) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 31 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Juel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Juel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.5% confident that Juel is pronounced as juel, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JUE-ehl, at 34.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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