Jeanelle
Jeanelle was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,344 among girls’ names; 2,280 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Jeanelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 23 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeanelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeanelle?
#11,344 among girls’ names, 2025
Jeanelle fell from #5,917 in 2015 to #11,344 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 5.0 per million.
49 babies in 1981, the peak
Jeanelle peaked in 1981, when 49 girls were given it, #2,096 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,344 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,852 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,678 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,753 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,797 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,848 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,369 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,541 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,149 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,527 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,917 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,831 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,855 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,024 | 15.9 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,185 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,696 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,668 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,804 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,011 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,584 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,387 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,862 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,248 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,431 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,605 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,060 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,927 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,941 | 24.9 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,748 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,873 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,743 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,935 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,816 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,524 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,561 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,243 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 35 | #3,062 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,714 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,628 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,306 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 33 | #2,821 | 19.2 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,353 | 24.3 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,566 | 21.0 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,388 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,096 | 29.4 |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,821 | 19.3 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,226 | 27.4 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,326 | 25.5 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,479 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,332 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,086 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,246 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,530 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,702 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,392 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,060 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,730 | 14.2 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,504 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,133 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,192 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,866 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,500 | 13.2 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,908 | 9.9 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,382 | 13.2 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,635 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,938 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,697 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,442 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,859 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,114 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,148 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,224 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,739 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,160 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,371 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,383 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,456 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,449 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,571 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,350 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,770 | 17.6 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,332 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,626 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,724 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,307 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,149 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,701 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,902 | 16.3 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,623 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,912 | 16.3 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,361 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,354 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,606 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,933 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,775 | 18.8 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,978 | 16.0 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,650 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,867 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,706 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,550 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,855 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,059 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,303 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,260 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,644 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,622 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,184 | 4.3 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,889 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeanelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeanelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeanelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeanelle, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 2,280 Americans ever recorded as Jeanelle. The median Jeanelle alive today is 39 years old; half are between 23 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,844 people named Jeanelle (1,842 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,927 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 82 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 252 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 387 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 521 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 461 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 196 |
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 Jeanelle born?
The states with the most babies named Jeanelle are California, New York and Texas, with 83% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 270 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 68 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 59 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 43 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jeanelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeanelle is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 1.1 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 Jeanelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,786 babies since 1880, Jeanelle is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 27 babies (30%), again the second most given.
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 Jeanelle
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 Jeanelle and names like it
- Compare Jeanelle and JenelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJeanelle peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeanelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jeanelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jeanelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.