Jaelle
Feminine · “Mountain goat”
Jaël is a woman who drives a tent peg through a general's head, and the Bible sings about it: the Song of Deborah, one of the oldest passages in the Hebrew Bible, calls her most blessed of women for it. Jaelle is the French form.
How old is the name Jaelle?
Jaelle first appears in US birth records in 1994 — 31 years ago. The typical Jaelle is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Jaelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaelle most popular?
Jaelle peaked in 2011, reaching #3781 nationally. Today it ranks #5554, 1,773 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Yāʿēl to Jaelle
The story of Jaelle
In Judges 4 and 5, Sisera, the commander of the Canaanite army, flees on foot after Barak's victory and takes shelter in Jael's tent; she gives him milk, covers him, and when he sleeps drives a tent peg through his temple. The Song of Deborah in chapter 5 is generally reckoned among the oldest Hebrew poetry preserved, and it celebrates her. The name survived in Jewish and Puritan use, and the French Jaëlle is a modern formation. Its American record is recent and follows French-speaking Haitian and African families as well as English-speaking biblical naming, peaking in 2011.
Meaning
Mountain goat, ibex
From Hebrew Yāʿēl, a wild or mountain goat — the Nubian ibex of the Judean desert. The reading is settled. The French Jaëlle adds the feminine -le ending and a diaeresis marking that the a and e are said separately; American records drop the diaeresis.
How the name formed
- Yāʿēl
- Jaël
- Jaelle
Related forms: יָעֵל · Jaëlle · Jael · Yael
Pronouncing Jaelle
jah-EL
Two syllables, stress on the second, with the a and e said separately — which is what the French diaeresis marks. American records drop it, and English readers then say JAYL or JAY-ell.
Nicknames for Jaelle
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1994
- Most girls named
- 201140 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3781reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%22 in 2025, from 33
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jaelle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- יָעֵל in Hebrew — related form
- Jaëlle in French — same name
- Jael in English — related form
- Yael in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, California, New York.
Jaelles among us
people named Jaelle are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was named Jaelle
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jaelle
- #5554
- Jaelle on the 2025 chart
- #926
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jaelle went to 22 girls in 2025, but Jaelee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 34, which makes it the 926th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,628 places above the chart.
- Jaelle22
- Jaelee12
About 1 girl in 47,273 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 73,058 for Jaelle itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shaya test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaelle's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shaya climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shaya's path sketches the road Jaelle is walking now.
Jaelle sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jaelle beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaelle in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and concrete — a specific desert animal.
- Elle and Yael are both available as short forms.
- The biblical bearer is unforgettable.
- American records drop the diaeresis and the pronunciation collapses.
- Jael, Jaelle, Yael and Yaelle are four spellings of one name.
- The story attached to it is a killing, celebrated in verse.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaelles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Jaelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jaelle?
- Jaelle is the most-used spelling in US records — 22 of the 34 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jaelee.
- How popular is the name Jaelle in 2025?
- Jaelle ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaelle?
- About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Jaelle — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaelle with classmates?
- Jaelle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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