Jewel

“Gemstone; originally 'toy or delight' in Old French” — English, from Old French jouel origin

Girl's name · #1514 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Jewel holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#1514 in 2025). About 41,000 girls have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Around the world: about 1 in 11,000 girls in Canada (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 19 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Jewels

Jewel — American singer-songwriter
Jewel Staite — Canadian actress
Jewel Taylor — Liberian politician, senator from Bong County
Jewel Carmen — American actress (1897–1984)
Jewel Plummer Cobb — American biologist (1924–2017)

In stories & tradition

Jewel — The Last Battle

What Jewels become

Among 71 notable people named Jewel:

Entertainers appear 2.09× more often than among typical names — e.g. Jewel, American singer-songwriter.

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