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Jabez vs Jabriel

American parents have registered 1,134 Jabezes since 1880, against 1,023 Jabriels. Jabez is still ahead, with 17 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jabez against Jabriel, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jabez Jabriel

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Jabez for 32 years and Jabriel for 24 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Jabez Jabriel
Total US births 1,1341,023
Most in one year 10242
Babies in 2025 1713
Estimated living today 1,1001,000
Median age today 1918
Peak year 20022009
Best rank 1,305th boys2,847th boys
Rank in 2025 5,399th6,446th
First recorded 18801979
Girls / boys 0 / 1,1340 / 1,023

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jabez and Jabriel.