Jassiel
Masculine · “God makes”
Jassiel is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 951 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Jassiel belongs to the great family of names ending in -el, the Hebrew word for God — the same ending carried by Gabriel, Daniel and Uriel. It is a newcomer to American records, but it arrives with a very old shape behind it, and it moves easily between Spanish and English without changing a letter.
How old is the name Jassiel?
Jassiel first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Jassiel is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Jassiel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jassiel most popular?
Jassiel peaked in 2025, reaching #1492 nationally. Today it ranks #1492, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Ya'asi'el to Jassiel
The story of Jassiel
The -el ending goes back to Hebrew, where it names God, and it produced a long line of names in which something is said about him: God is my strength, God is my light, God makes. Jaasiel, the closest documented ancestor, appears twice in the Book of Chronicles as the name of minor figures in David's circle, and it survives in Spanish and Portuguese Bibles as Jasiel. Jassiel, with the doubled s, is the form that took hold in Spanish-speaking families in the Americas, and it reached United States records within living memory. Its strongest footing here is in Texas, California and New York.
Meaningscholars disagree
"God makes" — if read as a form of the Hebrew Jaasiel
Two readings compete. One takes Jassiel as a Spanish-influenced spelling of Jasiel/Jaasiel, a Hebrew name in the Book of Chronicles, usually rendered "God makes" or "made by God" from a verb meaning to make joined to El, God. The other treats it as a modern formation built on the familiar -el pattern, with no single documented ancestor. What is not in doubt is the -el itself, which means God in Hebrew and is the reason the name sits alongside Gabriel, Uriel and Ariel.
How the name formed
- Ya'asi'el
- Jaasiel
- Jasiel
- Jassiel
Related forms: Jasiel · Yasiel · Ya'asi'el · Jasiel · Jaziel
Pronouncing Jassiel
hah-see-EL
That is the Spanish reading, with the j as an h and the stress on the last syllable. English speakers commonly say JASS-ee-el, and some families follow the Hebrew and say yah-see-EL. All three are in real use, so a family usually settles on one and repeats it.
Nicknames for Jassiel
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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
- 1993
- Most boys named
- 2024119 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1492reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- −0.8%118 in 2025, from 119
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.
Jassiel in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jasiel in Spanish — spelling variant
- Yasiel in Spanish — spelling variant
- Ya'asi'el in Hebrew — transliteration
- Jasiel in Portuguese — same name
- Jaziel in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Jassiels among us
people named Jassiel are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 14,475 born in 2025 was named Jassiel
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 Jarron test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jassiel's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jarron climbed just as high around 1989, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jarron's path sketches the road Jassiel is walking now.
Jassiel is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jassiel is headed
Jassiel is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 69% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Jassiel beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jassiel in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Shares its ending with Gabriel, Daniel and Uriel, so the shape is instantly readable to most English and Spanish speakers even when the whole name is new to them.
- Spelled the same in Spanish and English, which spares it the translation that catches many names crossing between the two.
- Rare enough in American classrooms that a child is unlikely ever to share it, while never sounding invented.
- Offers Jay as a ready-made short form, already familiar on its own.
- It has three live pronunciations — hah-see-EL, JASS-ee-el, yah-see-EL — and no single one has won. Bilingual families in particular will hear the name said both ways, and it helps to decide early which one you correct people toward.
- The spelling will need repeating. Jasiel, Yasiel, Jaziel and Jassiel are all in circulation, and the doubled s is the least predictable of them.
- Its meaning is not fully settled. If the reading matters to you, know that the -el is certain and the first half is argued over.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jassiels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Jassiel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jassiel in 2025?
- Jassiel ranks #1492 among US boy names in 2025, with 118 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jassiel?
- About 1 in every 14,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Jassiel — 118 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jassiel with classmates?
- Jassiel will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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