How popular is the baby name Jehiel in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Jehiel.

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Popularity of the baby name Jehiel


Posts that mention the name Jehiel

Boy names that returned to the U.S. baby name data in 2023

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In 2023, which boy names re-emerged most impressively in the U.S. baby name data (after an absence of at least one year)?

Here are the top 10+ boy-name returns:

  1. Yamari, 55 baby boys
  2. Khmari, 24
  3. Amell, 21 (tie)
  4. Jozhiel, 21 (tie)
  5. Nachmen, 18 (tie)
  6. Riftyn, 18 (tie)
  7. Jaydence, 17
  8. Dagim, 16 (tie)
  9. Jehiel, 16 (tie)
  10. Adriell, 15 (5-way tie)
  11. Kamsiyochukwu, 15 (5-way tie)
  12. Leniel, 15 (5-way tie)
  13. Rhettlee, 15 (5-way tie)
  14. Wyndham, 15 (5-way tie)

The return that caught my eye was a little lower on the list — Shohei, given to 13 baby boys last year (after being absent from the data for more than two decades). I’m surprised that the first name of baseball phenom Shohei Ohtani didn’t return a year (or two) earlier than 2023, actually.

If you can think of a likely explanation for any of the returns listed above, please leave a comment!

Source: SSA

Image: Adapted from First leaves Novosibirsk Siberia 24.04.2012 by Mikhail Koninin under CC BY 2.0.

Baby name story: Return

Ohio governor Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. (1764-1825)
Return J. Meigs, Jr.

In 1708, a baby boy named Return was born in Guilford, Connecticut.

His parents were Janna Meigs (1672-1739) and Hannah Willard (1674-1749), and he was the fifth of ten children: Janna, Josiah, Jehiel, Hannah, Return, Hester, Silence and Submit (twin girls), Timothy and Eunice.

There’s a story behind Return’s name. That much I know. But so many different versions of the story exist that there’s no telling which one is true.

The most common version starts with Janna proposing marriage to Hannah. She rejects him. (Many sources say this happened repeatedly.) Just as he’s about to ride off, she changes her mind and calls after him, “Return, Janna, return!” He does. They wed. And when they welcome their fifth child, they name him Return in honor of that moment.

Other versions of the story are quite different. One patriotic attempt claims the baby was born during the Battle of Concord (1775), and that “Return, Janna, return” was Hannah’s cry for her husband to come home from battle. Too bad the baby was already 67 years old at that point.

The name has since been handed down to more than a dozen of Return’s descendants, including Return’s son Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr. (b. 1740) and grandson Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. (b. 1764), who served as governor of Ohio in the early 1810s.

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