Jewel
Jewel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 159 births. Its best rank was 198th, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1590.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920826 births
- Best rank
- #198in 1904
- Since 1880
- 46,571people given the name
The story in the numbers
41,338 girls have been named Jewel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 826 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 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 113 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,233 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jewel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 132 | |
| 1890s | 660 | |
| 1900s | 2,076 | |
| 1910s | 5,513 | |
| 1920s | 7,779 | |
| 1930s | 4,874 | |
| 1940s | 3,640 | |
| 1950s | 2,665 | |
| 1960s | 1,823 | |
| 1970s | 1,044 | |
| 1980s | 1,246 | |
| 1990s | 2,371 | |
| 2000s | 3,485 | |
| 2010s | 3,018 | |
| 2020s | 1,012 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Jewel was the 228th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Jewel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rubypeak 1924
- Claricepeak 1921
- Bethelpeak 1922
- Jewellpeak 1920
- Novellapeak 1923
- Odessapeak 1920
- Rosellepeak 1919
- Colettapeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
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.