Meaning not yet researched.
Joellen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #777 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #777 in 1958; #15,970 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joellen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,970 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #777.
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Joellen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #777 in 1958 · most girls in one year: 167 (1960).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Joellen, making it the 15,970th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,229 places from #12,741 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 7 girls named Joellen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #777, reached in 1958. The most girls given the name in a single year was 167, in 1960. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #782 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joellen in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 8 babies. In all, 5,399 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,312 babies named Joellen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 67 US girls were named Joellen; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Joleen (6,670 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joellyn, Joelyn and Joelynn 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: Joellyn (861), Joelyn (735), Joelynn (253), Joelan (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 Joellen 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 | 5 | #15,970 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,741 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,649 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,345 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,550 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,385 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,064 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,132 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,263 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,493 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,029 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,828 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,912 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,831 | — | — |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,092 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,216 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,684 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,537 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,998 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,839 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,446 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,837 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,948 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,203 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,110 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,952 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,410 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,743 | — | — |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,600 | — | — |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,609 | — | — |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,618 | — | — |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,370 | — | — |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,492 | — | — |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1972 | 84 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1971 | 105 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1969 | 99 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1968 | 90 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1966 | 152 | #807 | — | — |
| 1965 | 136 | #859 | — | — |
| 1964 | 128 | #929 | — | — |
| 1963 | 143 | #878 | — | — |
| 1962 | 159 | #834 | — | — |
| 1961 | 135 | #925 | — | — |
| 1960 | 167 | #797 | — | — |
| 1959 | 134 | #902 | — | — |
| 1958 | 166 | #777 | — | — |
| 1957 | 156 | #811 | — | — |
| 1956 | 137 | #847 | — | — |
| 1955 | 119 | #901 | — | — |
| 1954 | 141 | #792 | — | — |
| 1953 | 92 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1952 | 106 | #900 | — | — |
| 1951 | 115 | #834 | — | — |
| 1950 | 123 | #782 | — | — |
| 1949 | 110 | #843 | — | — |
| 1948 | 107 | #846 | — | — |
| 1947 | 122 | #783 | — | — |
| 1946 | 86 | #903 | — | — |
| 1945 | 87 | #813 | — | — |
| 1944 | 81 | #848 | — | — |
| 1943 | 72 | #916 | — | — |
| 1942 | 72 | #923 | — | — |
| 1941 | 66 | #907 | — | — |
| 1940 | 58 | #949 | — | — |
| 1939 | 54 | #970 | — | — |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1933 | 52 | #953 | — | — |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,430 | — | — |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,659 | — | — |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,832 | — | — |
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).