Joelle
#1,008 for girls in 2025, 248 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 96.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 406 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,115since 1918
Joelle over time
Rank among girls' names. Joelle has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,008 | 248 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #919 | 289 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #935 | 284 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #784 | 362 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #732 | 389 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #761 | 359 | #4,275 | 23 |
| 2019 | #703 | 411 | #4,480 | 22 |
| 2018 | #699 | 416 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #673 | 436 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #782 | 363 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #1,079 | 243 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #1,036 | 250 | #4,866 | 19 |
| 2013 | #1,082 | 228 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #1,121 | 221 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #1,096 | 224 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #1,110 | 222 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #1,112 | 228 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #1,022 | 256 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #1,019 | 259 | #4,808 | 19 |
| 2006 | #1,083 | 234 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #1,078 | 220 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #936 | 257 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #903 | 264 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #916 | 244 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #949 | 233 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #901 | 243 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #854 | 253 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #837 | 254 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #820 | 252 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #847 | 235 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #808 | 245 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #795 | 256 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #863 | 224 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #914 | 214 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #826 | 248 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #789 | 255 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #789 | 241 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #784 | 240 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #655 | 287 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #647 | 284 | — | |
| 1985 | #665 | 272 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #802 | 198 | — | |
| 1983 | #918 | 162 | — | |
| 1982 | #905 | 167 | — | |
| 1981 | #932 | 160 | — | |
| 1980 | #866 | 177 | — | |
| 1979 | #897 | 166 | — | |
| 1978 | #826 | 181 | — | |
| 1977 | #860 | 171 | — | |
| 1976 | #866 | 157 | — | |
| 1975 | #785 | 179 | — | |
| 1974 | #815 | 165 | — | |
| 1973 | #824 | 159 | — | |
| 1972 | #733 | 191 | — | |
| 1971 | #722 | 210 | — | |
| 1970 | #584 | 299 | — | |
| 1969 | #551 | 320 | — | |
| 1968 | #489 | 390 | — | |
| 1967 | #492 | 375 | — | |
| 1966 | #469 | 406 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,097 | 91 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,151 | 31 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,867 | 39 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,264 | 28 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,150 | 30 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,289 | 25 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,067 | 28 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,103 | 27 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,774 | 35 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,076 | 26 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,071 | 25 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,126 | 23 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,391 | 18 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,053 | 22 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,069 | 22 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,708 | 30 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,822 | 28 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,094 | 20 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,237 | 15 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,287 | 15 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,558 | 13 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,537 | 13 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,963 | 9 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,592 | 11 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,730 | 10 | — | |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,926 | 9 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,802 | 6 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 | — | |
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| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Joelle! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1932, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Joelle is popular in 1980
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#399 · 1 in 2,628
- Minnesota#440 · 1 in 4,163
- Massachusetts#474 · 1 in 4,464
- Pennsylvania#486 · 1 in 4,310
- Wisconsin#543 · 1 in 6,298
Best ever in a state: #139 in Alaska, 1966.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #399 | 38 | 1 in 2,628 |
| Minnesota | #440 | 7 | 1 in 4,163 |
| Massachusetts | #474 | 7 | 1 in 4,464 |
| Pennsylvania | #486 | 16 | 1 in 4,310 |
| Wisconsin | #543 | 5 | 1 in 6,298 |
| Washington | #572 | 6 | 1 in 4,473 |
| New Jersey | #643 | 7 | 1 in 5,315 |
| Michigan | #717 | 8 | 1 in 7,534 |
| California | #774 | 27 | 1 in 6,433 |
| Ohio | #850 | 7 | 1 in 10,473 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Joelle
- 89 spots since 2024 (#919 → #1,008)
- 247 spots since 2020 (#761 → #1,008)
- 71 spots since 2015 (#1,079 → #1,008)
- Biggest jump: 628 spots in 1966 (#1,097 → #469)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 2023 (#784 → #935)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1966 at #469 (406 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1966–2004
- Highest: 1 in 3,960 girls born in 2017 were named Joelle (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,481 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #469 in 1966, was only 1 in 4,168 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.7% of all girls named Joelle (3,014) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 50 | #2,592 (1939) | #3,183 |
| 1940s | 174 | #1,708 (1948) | #2,331 |
| 1950s | 261 | #1,774 (1955) | #2,089 |
| 1960s | 1,740 | #469 (1966) | #1,363 |
| 1970s | 1,878 | #584 (1970) | #791 |
| 1980s | 2,188 | #647 (1986) | #796 |
| 1990s | 2,436 | #789 (1990) | #835 |
| 2000s | 2,438 | #901 (2000) | #992 |
| 2010s | 3,014 | #673 (2017) | #938 |
| 2020s | 1,931 | #732 (2021) | #857 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Joelle in 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 9,380 of them was named Joelle, which outranked 92.9% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #862Nakisha178
- #862Nikia178
- #862Shanon178
- #866Joelle177
- #866Angelita177
- #866Annemarie177
- #866Bernice177
- #871Cheyenne176
- #871Davina176
- #871Eunice176
Tied with 4 names at #866; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.