In 2025, 9 US girls were named Jonelle, making it the 10,469th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,276 places from #12,745 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 7 girls named Jonelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,047, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 137. For comparison, it was #8,679 in 2015 and #2,488 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jonelle in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 5 babies. In all, 3,260 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 855 babies named Jonelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 107 US girls were named Jonelle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jonell (2,676 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Johnell, Jonel and Johnelle are summarised on this page.