Jubal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Derived from the Hebrew root y-b-l, meaning 'stream', 'river', or 'to bring/conduct'; also associated with 'yobel' (ram's horn/jubilee)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒbəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jubal is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Derived from the Hebrew root y-b-l, meaning 'stream', 'river', or 'to bring/conduct'; also associated with 'yobel' (ram's horn/jubilee).
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jubal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 662 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 86 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 24 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 12 | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 9 | — |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jubal 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.
Represents the development of the arts and culture within the lineage of Cain before the Flood.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
A Hebrew name associated with music, creativity, and celebration.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, A son of Lamech and Ada.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, männl. Vom. biblischer Herkunft (hebr. yübäl »er ist gebracht worden«). Jubal, Sohn
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Jubal Anderson Earlyb. 1816USlawyer, politician, and general of the Confederate States Army (1816-1894)
- Jubal Brownb. 1974CACanadian video producer and multi-media artist (born 1974)
- Jubalb. 1993BRBrazilian footballer
- Jubal FulksUSAmerican violinist and university professor
- Jubal HarpsterIEAmerican software engineer and geographer
- Jubal R. Wattsresearcher
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 23 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 662 | #16,658 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 86 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 84 | #45,833 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 82 | #21,247 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 64 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #49,541 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 23 | #24,147 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 19 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Jubal?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒbəl/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Jubal mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from the Hebrew root y-b-l, meaning 'stream', 'river', or 'to bring/conduct'; also associated with 'yobel' (ram's horn/jubilee). Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Jubal a male or female name?
- Jubal is a male 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 Jubal have the most bearers?
- Jubal is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Jubal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jubalThe 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, “Jubal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.