Joal
Joal was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 122 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,276, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1946, the peak
Joal peaked in 1946, when 8 boys were given it, #2,801 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | under 5 | 5 | #12,276 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #11,517 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,383 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,289 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #7,024 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,935 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,836 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,817 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,836 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,706 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,395 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,308 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #6,010 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 6 | #4,917 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,263 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,221 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,040 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,113 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,801 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,726 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,518 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Joal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 122 Americans recorded as Joal, 20% are girls and 80% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Joal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joal, and how old are they?
An estimated 102 Americans named Joal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 42 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 388 people named Joal (109 women and girls, 279 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 108 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 284,727 babies since 1880, Joal is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,659 babies recorded by SSA was a Joal (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Joal and names like it
- Compare Joal and JoelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJoal peaked in 1946.
- The top names of 1946The year the most babies were named Joal.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Joal alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.