Jaleel
Masculine · “majestic”
Jaleel is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 4,906 boys against 24 girls since 1880.
Jaleel is majestic in Arabic — and Al-Jalil, the Majestic, is one of the ninety-nine names of God.
How old is the name Jaleel?
Jaleel first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Jaleel alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 4,800 people named Jaleel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jaleel most popular?
Jaleel peaked in 1994, reaching #652 nationally. Today it ranks #1976, 1,324 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
From jalal to Jaleel
The story of Jaleel
Jalal and jamal — majesty and beauty — are a standing pair in Islamic theology, naming two aspects of the divine, and jalil belongs to the first. The name is used across the Arabic-speaking world and entered American naming from the 1970s. It appears in the registers and is in current use.
Meaning
majestic, exalted
From the Arabic jalil, 'majestic', 'great' or 'sublime', from a root about magnitude and reverence. Al-Jalil is among the divine names, and jalal, the noun, names the quality of divine majesty. The word is ordinary Arabic and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- jalal
- jalil
- Jaleel
Related forms: جليل · Jalil · Jaleel
Pronouncing Jaleel
juh-LEEL
Two syllables, stress on the second. Arabic gives the j a softer quality than English does.
Nicknames for Jaleel
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
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 1994255 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #652reached in 1994
- Change vs 2024
- +28.3%77 in 2025, from 60
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.
Jaleel in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- جليل in Arabic — transliteration
- Jalil in English — spelling variant
- Jaleel in Urdu — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: North Carolina, Texas, Georgia.
Jaleels among us
people named Jaleel are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 22,183 born in 2025 was named Jaleel
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Abdul test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jaleel's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Abdul climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Abdul's path sketches the road Jaleel is walking now.
Jaleel 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
Where Jaleel is headed
Jaleel is easing off slowly — about 19% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jaleel beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jaleel in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The majestic meaning is transparent, undisputed and unusually elevated.
- The jalal-and-jamal pairing is a genuinely fine piece of theology.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- Jalil is the commoner transliteration internationally.
- It reads as specifically Muslim.
- It is closely dated to the 1980s and 1990s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jaleels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,800 people named Jaleel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jaleel in 2025?
- Jaleel ranks #1976 among US boy names in 2025, with 77 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jaleel?
- About 1 in every 22,183 US boys born in 2025 was named Jaleel — 77 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jaleel with classmates?
- Jaleel will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jaleel
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