Joelle

Where Joelle comes from

The dictionaries list Joelle as a given name — a female given name from French Joëlle [in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Joel — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #4,809 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Peak, #469
    406 babies named Joelle — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1972
    Joelle Carter born
    American actress
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #733.
  5. 1986
    Joelle Murray born
    Scottish football player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French Joëlle [in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Joel.
Namesakes
  • Joelle Carter · American actress, born 1972
  • Joelle · actress and singer
  • Joelle Murray · Scottish football player, born 1986
  • Joelle Wedemeyer · German association football player, born 1996
  • Joelle Franzmann · German triathlete, born 1979

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.