Jael

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jael: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jael: Recorded since 1996, it reached #677 in 2004, and it stood at #3,695 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#677highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1999	#3900
2001	#3998
2002	#4137
2005	#2970
2006	#2781
2007	#5201
2008	#3005
2009	#3422
2010	#2589
2011	#2025
2012	#3285
2013	#2887
2015	#4736
2016	#4096
2017	#2925
2018	#2499
2019	#5591
2020	#2615
2021	#2499
2022	#2888
2023	#3218
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Jael appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 149 births with the name.

Jael across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jael's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2025 (2011)	#3695 (2024)	23 of 29	149 (1996–2024)	13 (2011)
England and Wales · Boys	#3651 (2004)	#3651 (2004)	#3687 (2008)	2 of 5	7 (2004–2008)	4 (2008)

Jael by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jael in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	35	7 of 10	5
2010s	67	9 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	40	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jael appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #677 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Jael's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2888	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2887	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2970	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #677, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 13 births, registered in England and Wales in 2011.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Jaeden · #958, 23y
Jafar · #730, 20y
Jagger · #1004, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alyx · #677, 19y
Comfort · #677, 21y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y
Giselle · #677, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alyx · #677, 19y
Comfort · #677, 21y
Enola · #677, 23y
Fatoumata · #677, 26y

Jael was ranked #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2004. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jael and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jael without appearing here.

Jael moved ahead of

Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #5666.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #5201 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #5707.
Kirsten Compare
In 2020 they stood at #5591 and #5591 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #5581.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Jael

Ezra Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2887 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #1279.
Eabha Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #5591 and #2458.
Selma Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #5591 and #2643.
Liv Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #2105.

Moved the opposite way to Jael

Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Jael went from #2589 to #3695 while Rory went from #5707 to #1603.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #677 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jael

Jael at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jael across 2 official records

Jael by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jael appears in

Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Jael at a glance

Jael across 2 official records

Jael by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jael appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Jael

Jael and the names beside it

Jael moved ahead of

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