Meaning not yet researched.
Joella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #792 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #792 in 1880; #3,545 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,545 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #792.
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Joella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 girls in 2025. Peak: #792 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 78 (2016).
In 2025, 43 US girls were named Joella, making it the 3,545th most common girls’ name of the year, down 236 places from #3,309 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 48 girls named Joella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #792, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 78, in 2016. For comparison, it was #2,982 in 2015 and #1,484 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joella in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 4,204 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 617 babies named Joella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 614 US girls were named Joella; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Joelle (16,640 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joela, Juella and Joyella are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Joela (17), Juella (5), Joyella (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Joella in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,670 | — | — |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,619 | — | — |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,905 | — | — |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,982 | — | — |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,144 | — | — |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,999 | — | — |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,766 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,023 | — | — |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,941 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,496 | — | — |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,554 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,685 | — | — |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,057 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,525 | — | — |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,708 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,008 | — | — |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,373 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,818 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,313 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,528 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,442 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,712 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,431 | — | — |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,632 | — | — |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,092 | — | — |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,210 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1980 | 44 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,694 | — | — |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,641 | — | — |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,332 | — | — |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1958 | 39 | #1,748 | — | — |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,538 | — | — |
| 1956 | 58 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1955 | 54 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1952 | 44 | #1,463 | — | — |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1948 | 61 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1947 | 62 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1944 | 62 | #990 | — | — |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1940 | 51 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1938 | 46 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1934 | 39 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1928 | 29 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,467 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,795 | — | — |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,326 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #971 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #792 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).