Inspired by the surname Jewell, Jewel has been in use as a first name for a long time. The surname Jewell goes back to the Breton name Iudicael which means ‘generous lord’. The word ‘jewel’ comes from Latin ‘jocale’ meaning ‘plaything’.
Jewel is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
The name Jewel isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Jewel ranks 864. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Jewel. In the entire USA, approximately 35,783 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jewel. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Inspired by the surname Jewell, Jewel has been in use as a first name for a long time. The surname Jewell goes back to the Breton name Iudicael which means ‘generous lord’. The word ‘jewel’ comes from Latin ‘jocale’ meaning ‘plaything’.
The heyday of the name Jewel was in... the 1920s, when it was significantly more popular than in other decades.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Jewel annualy. This means that there have been girls named Jewel who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Jewel have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Jewel even more than any other time: in 1904, it holds its present record of #185 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jewel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Jewel has never been ranked higher than #185. In 2022, she rivaled the 955 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 219 girls named Jewel were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Jewel were born, there have been 159 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Jewel is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jewel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jewel, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Windmill
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jewel
Jewel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
W
E
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
W
E
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jewel sounds like this:
