# Jewel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jewel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Jewell |
| US babies named this | 46,728 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,243 / 41,485 (89% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 303, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From jewel.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 274 | 940 |
| 2012 | 332 | 809 |
| 2013 | 286 | 898 |
| 2014 | 316 | 868 |
| 2015 | 314 | 881 |
| 2016 | 299 | 919 |
| 2017 | 333 | 819 |
| 2018 | 315 | 861 |
| 2019 | 268 | 971 |
| 2020 | 249 | 1,012 |
| 2021 | 195 | 1,215 |
| 2022 | 226 | 1,105 |
| 2023 | 187 | 1,242 |
| 2024 | 160 | 1,405 |
| 2025 | 141 | 1,514 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | 8,430 |
| 2011 | 7 | 10,131 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,208 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,424 |
| 2014 | 14 | 6,133 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,746 |
| 2016 | 14 | 6,179 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,467 |
| 2018 | 5 | 13,066 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,677 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,125 |
| 2021 | 14 | 6,171 |
| 2022 | 18 | 5,309 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,391 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,547 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,295 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,991 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,798 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,961 |
| 2016 | 10 | 2,547 |
| 2017 | 18 | 1,681 |
| 2018 | 15 | 1,887 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2,278 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2005 | 6 | 2,418 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Jewel

- Jewel, American singer-songwriter
- Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
- Jewel, American pornographic actress
- Jewel Plummer Cobb, American biologist (1924–2017)
- Jewel Shepard, American actress
- Jewel Brown, American jazz and blues singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.