Jewell
Jewell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 188th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920893 births
- Best rank
- #188in 1910
- Since 1880
- 34,107people given the name
The story in the numbers
29,428 girls have been named Jewell in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 893 births.
The name has all but left use: 11 births in 2024, against 893 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 4,679 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jewell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 104 | |
| 1890s | 742 | |
| 1900s | 2,321 | |
| 1910s | 5,983 | |
| 1920s | 7,687 | |
| 1930s | 4,023 | |
| 1940s | 3,101 | |
| 1950s | 1,707 | |
| 1960s | 1,057 | |
| 1970s | 512 | |
| 1980s | 443 | |
| 1990s | 625 | |
| 2000s | 664 | |
| 2010s | 378 | |
| 2020s | 81 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Jewell was the 216th 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 Jewell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Velmapeak 1921
- Rubyepeak 1919
- Alleanpeak 1924
- Leomapeak 1920
- Garnetpeak 1918
- Blanchiepeak 1925
- Mildredpeak 1920
- Maurinepeak 1917
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.