Jannelle
Jannelle was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,450 among girls’ names; 1,178 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Jannelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 22 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jannelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jannelle?
#12,450 among girls’ names, 2025
Jannelle fell from #10,436 in 2015 to #12,450 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 4.4 per million.
44 babies in 1981, the peak
Jannelle peaked in 1981, when 44 girls were given it, #2,278 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,450 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,895 | 6.2 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,626 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,146 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,317 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,031 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,038 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,436 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,227 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,770 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 16 | #7,602 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,121 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,754 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,188 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,193 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,215 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,447 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,380 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,442 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,991 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,098 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,258 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,794 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,424 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,419 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,715 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,232 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,801 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,320 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,297 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,429 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,652 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,970 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,406 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,055 | 18.5 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,279 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,277 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,034 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,946 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,757 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,819 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,278 | 26.4 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,896 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,184 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,703 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,807 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,854 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,687 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,935 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,844 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,179 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,923 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,561 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,194 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,313 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,421 | 6.1 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,094 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,684 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,372 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,676 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,871 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,786 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,245 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,472 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,042 | 4.9 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,900 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,882 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,563 | 5.8 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,588 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,137 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,579 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jannelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jannelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jannelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jannelle, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,178 Americans ever recorded as Jannelle. The median Jannelle alive today is 36 years old; half are between 22 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,153 people named Jannelle (1,153 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 102 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 211 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 288 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 112 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jannelle born?
The states with the most babies named Jannelle are California, New York and Florida, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 183 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 23 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jannelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jannelle is most over-represented in California: since 1948 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jannelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jannelle?
Jannelle is a less common spelling of Janelle: SSA has recorded 1,178 Jannelle and 56,967 Janelle since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,153 babies since 1880, Jannelle is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 426 babies (1.6%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jannelle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jannelle and names like it
- Compare Jannelle and JanelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJannelle peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jannelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jannelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jannelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.