Jael
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: From Hebrew Jaalah, 'cabra montesa'; name of the biblical heroine sung by Deborah
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/xael/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jael is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 16K
- USUnited States1 in 51K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'mountain goat' or 'ibex', symbolizing agility, sure-footedness, and dignity.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Jael is read(measured from records)
Jael is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish64%
From Hebrew Jaalah, 'cabra montesa'; name of the biblical heroine sung by Deborah.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English13%
city, Israel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Swahili5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Jael in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jael 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Jael | 7 |
| US United States | — | 6,487 | 1 in 51K | 4.1K | Jael | 196 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,362 | 1 in 90K | 2.4K | Jael | 65 |
| CL Chile | #783 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 11 | Jael | 57 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Jael | 31 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,437 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Jael | 28 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #547 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Jael | 28 |
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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names. 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)
Jael is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'mountain goat' or 'ibex', symbolizing agility, sure-footedness, and dignity.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Jael is celebrated as a heroine of faith and courage who acted as an instrument of God to deliver Israel from oppression. In Christian typology, she is sometimes seen as a prefiguration of the Virgin Mary or the Church triumphing over the devil (represented by Sisera).
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Ibex or Mountain Goat
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
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)
- Jael Uribeb. 1975DODominican poet and artist
- Jael de Pardob. 1981USAmerican actress
- Jael Freixanet Viejob. 1988ESSpanish basketball player (born 1988)
- Myha'la Herroldb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Jael Jostb. 2000CHSwiss association football player
- Jael HolzmanUSAmerican journalist and musician
- Jael RichardsonCAwriter, broadcaster, organizer
- Shirley Jael Melo OlveraECEcuadorian politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.1K | #3,291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #3,291 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.1K | #5,765 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.4K | #587 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #4,568 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #4,568 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 157 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 156 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 147 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 95 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 11 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Jael come from?
- A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'mountain goat' or 'ibex', symbolizing agility, sure-footedness, and dignity. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Jael?
- A machine transcription gives /xael/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Jael mean?
- In Spanish, From Hebrew Jaalah, 'cabra montesa'; name of the biblical heroine sung by Deborah.
- Is Jael a male or female name?
- Jael 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jael?
- In the etymology graph, Yael, Jahel and Iael are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Jael have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.8 thousand people named Jael in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jael.
- How common is the name Jael?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,487 people named Jael in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Jael compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Jael is the 547th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jaelThe 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, “Jael” — the 547th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.