Jabal
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- JAH-bal
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,859 for boys
Jabal is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “mountain”. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).
What does Jabal mean?
Arabic: Arabic word; also a biblical name (Hebrew Yaval)
“mountain”
In Arabic jabal means mountain; in Genesis, Jabal is a son of Lamech and ancestor of tent-dwelling herders.
Is Jabal a girl's or a boy's name?
Jabal is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jabal in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,859th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 110,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 15 boys in the US were named Jabal, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. It first appears in the records in 2019.
2025 had the most boys named Jabal of any year since it first appeared, in 2019.
Half of all the boys named Jabal in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jabal in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,859 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
Names like Jabal
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir, Zayan, Musab, Zayaan, Khaza, Jahseh, Zayd, Zayyan, Ahmir, Hamza, Zubair, Muhammadali
Names related to Jabal
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jabal: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jabal, updated 20 October 2026.