Jabez
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Hebrew name meaning 'he causes sorrow' (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ˈd͡ʒeɪ.bɛz/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Jabez is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 50K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 220Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Jabez
- English:/ˈd͡ʒeɪ.bɛz/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Swahili:/ʄaɓɛz/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/xabes/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A Hebrew name meaning 'he causes sorrow.' In the Bible, Jabez was an honorable man whose heartfelt prayer for blessing and protection was answered by God, giving the name a positive association with faith and divine favor despite its etymology.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jabez counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Jabez | 16 |
| US United States | 978 | 1 in 340K | 949 | Jabez | 170 |
| IN India | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Jabez | 40 |
| PH Philippines | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Jabez | 38 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | listed | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Jabez | 24 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Jabez | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 4 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jabez is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The name Jabez (Hebrew: יַעְבֵּץ, Ya'betz) is explained in 1 Chronicles 4:9 as meaning "he causes pain" or "he makes sorrowful," a name given to him by his mother because she bore him in pain.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Hebrew; sorrowful.
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In Hebrew, Sorrowful
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jabez Uphamb. 1764USAmerican politician (1764-1811)
- Jabez Young Jacksonb. 1790USAmerican politician
- Jabez Olssenb. 1975NZNew Zealand film editor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Jabez come from?
- A Hebrew name meaning 'he causes sorrow.' In the Bible, Jabez was an honorable man whose heartfelt prayer for blessing and protection was answered by God, giving the name a positive association with f… Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What does the name Jabez mean?
- Recorded meaning: A Hebrew name meaning 'he causes sorrow.'
- How do you pronounce Jabez?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.bɛz/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /ʄaɓɛz/; in Spanish /xabes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jabez a male or female name?
- Jabez is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- Which countries have the most people named Jabez?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Jabez in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jabez. After it come United States, India, Philippines and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Jabez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 978 people named Jabez in 2020, about 1 in 340 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jabezThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jabez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.