Meaning not yet researched.
Joely: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,145 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,145 in 1969; #8,081 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joely in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,081 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #1,145.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Joely: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,145 in 1969 · most girls in one year: 95 (1969).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Joely, making it the 8,081st most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,126 places from #4,955 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 27 girls named Joely in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,145, reached in 1969. That year also had the most girls given the name: 95. For comparison, it was #4,031 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joely in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 20 babies. In all, 1,820 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 592 babies named Joely.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 262 US girls were named Joely; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Joel (282,250 babies since 1880) and Joelle (16,640 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joelly, Joaly and Joelina 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: Joelly (181), Joaly (65), Joelina (20), Johely (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 Joely 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 | 13 | #8,081 | — | — |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,955 | — | — |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,055 | — | — |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,330 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,155 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,086 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,277 | — | — |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,103 | — | — |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,674 | — | — |
| 2015 | 37 | #4,031 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,219 | — | — |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,036 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,467 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,484 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 2005 | 58 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,302 | — | — |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,444 | — | — |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,323 | — | — |
| 1998 | 46 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,731 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,753 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,834 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,324 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,845 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,011 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,664 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,362 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,378 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,832 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,109 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,613 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,592 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,051 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,461 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,988 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,228 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,975 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,153 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,393 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 1970 | 53 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1969 | 95 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1968 | 70 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,815 | — | — |
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).