Mostly girls · peaked in 1904
Jewel name popularity since 1925
32,593 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Jewel (89.4% girls, 10.6% boys). Half of them were born in 1955 or earlier, so the typical Jewel is about 71 years old in 2026. Jewel peaked in 1904 as the #198 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.
Key facts
- US babies since 1925
- 32,593
- Named Jewel, 1925–2025
- Peak year
- 1904
- #198 for girls that year
- In 2025
- Not top 1,000
- #1,514 for girls in 2025
- Girls / boys
- 89.4% girls
- 29,132 girls · 3,461 boys
- Most popular in
- Arkansas
- 4.50× its national share
Peak year is the year Jewel made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.
Jewel births per year, 1925–2025
The biggest year on this chart was 1925. Measured as a share of all babies, Jewel peaked earlier, in 1904.
- Steepest fall: Between 1964 and 1969, Jewel's share of baby girls fell by 43%, from 1 in 8,420 to 1 in 14,800.
- Fastest rise: Between 1993 and 1998, it became 3.5× more common, from 1 in 12,600 baby girls to 1 in 3,600.
Shaded on the chart. Both compare Jewel's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Jewel.
Decade by decade
Babies named Jewel in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).
| Decade | Girls | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925–29 | 3,807 | 633 | – |
| 1930s | 4,874 | 871 | #279 |
| 1940s | 3,640 | 543 | #372 |
| 1950s | 2,665 | 416 | #556 |
| 1960s | 1,823 | 225 | #729 |
| 1970s | 1,045 | 187 | #1,284 |
| 1980s | 1,246 | 161 | #1,253 |
| 1990s | 2,371 | 133 | #1,141 |
| 2000s | 3,484 | 129 | #826 |
| 2010s | 3,019 | 100 | #881 |
| 2020–25 | 1,158 | 63 | #1,514 |
Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.
Generation fingerprint
30.8% of babies named Jewel from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:
Where Jewel is most popular
The index compares Jewel's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Jewel.
| State | Index | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 4.50× | 1,220 |
| Mississippi | 3.93× | 1,255 |
| Alabama | 3.55× | 1,657 |
| Oklahoma | 2.56× | 879 |
| Tennessee | 2.56× | 1,420 |
Other spellings
Spellings that sound like Jewel and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.
| Spelling | Girls | Peak year |
|---|---|---|
| Jewel (this page) | 29,132 | 1904 |
| Jewell | 16,080 | 1910 |
Names with a similar story
Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Jewel's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Jewel.
Names from the same era
Other common names that peaked within two years of Jewel (1904).
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data