Jewelia

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Jewelia by the numbers

Jewelia was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 32 babies in 2000, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Jewelia

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jewelia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jewelprecious stone or ornament340 in the US (2017)
  • Jewella precious stone; jewel; ornament50 in the US (2017)
  • Jewelsprecious stones or ornaments; plural of Jewel50 in the US (2017)
  • Jameliabeautiful; a form of jamal3 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Jeremiagod will exalt; feminine form of jeremiah9 in the US (2017)
  • Jewelz28 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Jewelia

Names that are said the same way as Jewelia, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Juliyahyouthful; a form of Julia5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Jewelia

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