Janelle

Where Janelle comes from

From Jane + -elle, q.v. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
— Wiktionary's entry for Janelle
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,979 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Janelle Commissiong born
    Trinidad and Tobago model
  3. 1979
    Peak, #186
    1,416 babies named Janelle — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1985
    Janelle Monáe born
    American singer and actress
  5. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #386.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Janelle Monáe · American singer and actress, born 1985
  • Janelle Commissiong · Trinidad and Tobago model, born 1953
  • Janelle James · American comedian, born 1979
  • Janelle Bynum · American politician, born 1975
  • Janelle Salaün · French basketball player, born 2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.