Jabez
Jabez is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 988th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2002102 births
- Best rank
- #988in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,117people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,117 boys have been named Jabez in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 102 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 49%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Jabez was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Jabez
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arathpeak 2002
- Andonpeak 2004
- Jailenpeak 2003
- Javenpeak 2007
- Amarionpeak 2004
- Ashtinpeak 2004
- Jaheempeak 2002
- Jadonpeak 2006
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.