Jubilee
Feminine · Hebrew roots · “A year of celebration and release”
Jubilee is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 3,784 girls against 28 boys since 1880.
Jubilee began as the sound of a ram's horn announcing the fiftieth year, and it has been a word for release and celebration ever since — papal jubilees, royal jubilees, golden and diamond ones. Said aloud it moves in three light steps and lands on the same open ee that ends glee and free. It is one of those English words that stepped sideways into use as a given name and kept every bit of its original brightness.
How old is the name Jubilee?
Jubilee first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Jubilee is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,800 people named Jubilee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jubilee most popular?
Jubilee peaked in 2025, reaching #1053 nationally. Today it ranks #1053, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yovel (Hebrew) to Jubilee
The story of Jubilee
The book of Leviticus sets out a fiftieth year proclaimed by the blast of a ram's horn — yovel in Hebrew — in which debts were forgiven and property restored. Greek and then Latin translators of the Hebrew Bible carried the word across, and in Latin it collided with iubilare, to shout for joy, producing iubilaeus and eventually Old French jubilé. The Roman church declared its first jubilee year in 1300, and by the nineteenth century Britain was marking royal jubilees with the same word. Its use as a personal name is much more recent and belongs chiefly to English-speaking America, where the word itself, not the Latin, is what parents are naming from.
Meaning
A year of celebration and release; from the Hebrew word for ram's horn
Two roots meet here. Hebrew yovel, a ram's horn, named the horn blown to proclaim the fiftieth year in Leviticus 25, when debts were canceled and land returned. In Latin the word was reshaped by iubilare, to shout for joy — which is why the English word carries celebration rather than livestock.
How the name formed
- YovelHebrew
- IobelaiosGreek
- IubilaeusLatin
- JubiléOld French
- JubileeEnglish
Related forms: Yovel · Jubilé · Jubileo · Giubileo · Jubileu · Iubilaeus
Pronouncing Jubilee
JOO-bih-lee
Three syllables, stress firmly on the first. The ending rhymes with glee. Most people who see it written will say it correctly on the first try, since they already know the word.
Nicknames for Jubilee
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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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 2025234 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1053reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +5.9%234 in 2025, from 221
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.
Jubilee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yovel in Hebrew — transliteration
- Jubilé in French — related form
- Jubileo in Spanish — related form
- Giubileo in Italian — related form
- Jubileu in Portuguese — related form
- Iubilaeus in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Jubilees among us
people named Jubilee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 6,869 born in 2025 was named Jubilee
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 Carrington test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jubilee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carrington climbed just as high around 2000, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carrington's path sketches the road Jubilee is walking now.
Jubilee 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 Jubilee is headed
Jubilee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Jubilee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jubilee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- An ordinary English word, so the spelling is already in everyone's head — rarely misspelled once heard, rarely mispronounced once seen.
- A documented line running from the Hebrew Bible through Latin, Old French and English, unbroken for well over two thousand years.
- Several natural short forms — Jubi, Jules, Bee, Lee — so a child has options without needing a second name.
- Uncommon enough that she is unlikely to share it with a classmate, while the word behind it is universally understood.
- The biblical and church associations are strong and specific: jubilee years, Leviticus, papal and royal anniversaries. Some families want exactly that; others should know it travels with the name whether or not they intend it.
- Jubilee is also a long-running Marvel X-Men character, familiar to comics and cartoon audiences. It is a friendly association, but it is the one some people will reach for first.
- The name is climbing quickly. It reads as unusual now, and the odds are good it will feel noticeably more familiar by the time she is grown.
- Celebration words carry a certain amount of cheer with them at all times, which can sit oddly on a solemn occasion — a legal document, a job application. Most word names manage this fine; it is worth saying aloud once before deciding.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jubilees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,800 people named Jubilee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jubilee in 2025?
- Jubilee ranks #1053 among US girl names in 2025, with 234 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jubilee?
- About 1 in every 6,869 US girls born in 2025 was named Jubilee — 234 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jubilee with classmates?
- Jubilee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jubilee
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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