girl's name

Jezabel

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 7
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 1,091

Jezabel is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 5 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2014, when 33 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 663,130 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1979.

Jezabel over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Jezabel by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1970s 6
1980s 45
1990s 93
2000s 186
2010s 223
2020s (to 2025) 91

How popular is Jezabel?

In 2025, Jezabel was given to 5 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Jezabel is used

Canada #2,705 7 in 2008
France as Jézabel #5,740 5 in 2015
United States #16,608 5 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Jezabel is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Jézabel Jézabel is a rare spelling of Jezabel, written with an acute accent and recorded about 40 times, mostly in France. 40

Names that peaked alongside Jezabel

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Jezabel also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Jezabel over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Jezabel

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Jezabel — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Jezabel

How popular is the name Jezabel?

In 2025, Jezabel was given to 5 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Jezabel a girl's or a boy's name?

Jezabel is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Jezabel most popular?

Jezabel peaked in 2014, when 33 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Jezabel a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Jezabel currently ranks #16,608 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.