Jaél
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jaél is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the name of a minor biblical character, Hebrew יעל.
- USUnited States1 in 51K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 12K
- NLNetherlands1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
6,487 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jael in US United States, NL Netherlands, Ja'El in GY Guyana and Jaèl in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the name of a minor biblical character, Hebrew יעל.
Sources 4
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaél 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 6,487 | 1 in 51K | 4.1K | Jael | 272 |
| BR Brazil | 2,362 | 1 in 90K | 2.4K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | 1,437 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | — | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 762 | 1 in 23K | 432 | Jael | 33 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Jaèl | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 120 | 1 in 42K | 120 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 33 | 1 in 23K | 33 | Ja'El | 3 |
6,487 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 6 | #24,300 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jaél mean, and where does it come from?
- From the name of a minor biblical character, Hebrew יעל. Recorded by Wiktionary and Biblical Names Compiled Database and 2 other sources.
- Is Jaél a male or female name?
- Jaél is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jaél have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Jaél, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jael.
- Where is Jaél most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaél is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jaél?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,487 people named Jaél in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jaél?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ja%C3%A9lThe 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, “Jaél”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.