Meaning not yet researched.
Joelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 248 in 2025. Its best rank was #469 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #469 in 1966; #1,010 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Joelle in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,010 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #469.
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Joelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 248 girls in 2025. Peak: #469 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 436 (2017).
In 2025, 248 US girls were named Joelle, making it the 1,010th most common girls’ name of the year, down 88 places from #922 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 289 girls named Joelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #469, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 436, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,080 in 2015 and #2,080 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joelle in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 16,640 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,210 babies named Joelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,557 US girls were named Joelle; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 436. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,481 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Joelle ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #587 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Joella (4,204 babies since 1880), Joely (1,820 babies since 1880), Joel (282,250 babies since 1880) and Joell (2,229 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joyelle, Juelle and Joielle 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Joyelle (390), Juelle (116), Joielle (11).
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 Joelle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 6 | #587 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #628 | #999 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #662 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #667 | #651 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #687 | #688 |
| Michigan | 11 | #706 | #641 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #722 | — |
| Virginia | 10 | #723 | #884 |
| Washington | 8 | #769 | #1,025 |
| Maryland | 6 | #779 | #598 |
| New York | 19 | #843 | #833 |
| California | 31 | #923 | #1,129 |
| Colorado | 5 | #979 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #991 | #761 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,065 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,132 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,216 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,370 | #1,306 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,497 | #1,504 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,641 | #1,007 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #1,010 | 5 | #12,889 |
| 2024 | 289 | #922 | 16 | #5,769 |
| 2023 | 284 | #935 | 14 | #6,340 |
| 2022 | 362 | #785 | 15 | #5,995 |
| 2021 | 389 | #734 | 18 | #5,227 |
| 2020 | 359 | #762 | 23 | #4,339 |
| 2019 | 411 | #704 | 22 | #4,546 |
| 2018 | 416 | #699 | 24 | #4,294 |
| 2017 | 436 | #673 | 20 | #4,836 |
| 2016 | 363 | #784 | 24 | #4,251 |
| 2015 | 243 | #1,080 | 17 | #5,396 |
| 2014 | 250 | #1,039 | 19 | #4,966 |
| 2013 | 228 | #1,083 | 16 | #5,519 |
| 2012 | 221 | #1,122 | 22 | #4,460 |
| 2011 | 224 | #1,100 | 17 | #5,310 |
| 2010 | 222 | #1,110 | 15 | #5,875 |
| 2009 | 228 | #1,114 | 16 | #5,685 |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,025 | 19 | #4,977 |
| 2007 | 259 | #1,021 | 19 | #4,894 |
| 2006 | 234 | #1,084 | 19 | #4,771 |
| 2005 | 220 | #1,082 | 11 | #6,859 |
| 2004 | 257 | #936 | 16 | #5,118 |
| 2003 | 264 | #903 | 5 | #11,755 |
| 2002 | 244 | #916 | 8 | #8,024 |
| 2001 | 233 | #951 | 7 | #8,721 |
| 2000 | 243 | #903 | 9 | #7,092 |
| 1999 | 253 | #857 | 7 | #8,267 |
| 1998 | 254 | #838 | 9 | #6,547 |
| 1997 | 252 | #821 | 10 | #5,853 |
| 1996 | 235 | #848 | 7 | #7,514 |
| 1995 | 245 | #810 | 6 | #8,287 |
| 1994 | 256 | #795 | 7 | #7,323 |
| 1993 | 224 | #867 | 8 | #6,505 |
| 1992 | 214 | #915 | 12 | #4,698 |
| 1991 | 248 | #828 | 8 | #6,209 |
| 1990 | 255 | #790 | 8 | #6,104 |
| 1989 | 241 | #790 | 8 | #5,905 |
| 1988 | 240 | #785 | 7 | #6,091 |
| 1987 | 287 | #655 | 5 | #7,512 |
| 1986 | 284 | #648 | — | — |
| 1985 | 272 | #666 | 7 | #5,427 |
| 1984 | 198 | #802 | — | — |
| 1983 | 162 | #921 | — | — |
| 1982 | 167 | #908 | — | — |
| 1981 | 160 | #934 | — | — |
| 1980 | 177 | #870 | — | — |
| 1979 | 166 | #899 | — | — |
| 1978 | 181 | #827 | — | — |
| 1977 | 171 | #861 | — | — |
| 1976 | 157 | #868 | — | — |
| 1975 | 179 | #786 | — | — |
| 1974 | 165 | #817 | — | — |
| 1973 | 159 | #826 | — | — |
| 1972 | 191 | #733 | — | — |
| 1971 | 210 | #723 | — | — |
| 1970 | 299 | #585 | — | — |
| 1969 | 320 | #552 | — | — |
| 1968 | 390 | #490 | — | — |
| 1967 | 375 | #492 | — | — |
| 1966 | 406 | #469 | — | — |
| 1965 | 91 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,165 | — | — |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,121 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,663 | — | — |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,525 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,038 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,996 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,196 | — | — |
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).