Joal — boys' name

What the Data Says About Joal

The Social Security Administration has registered 97 babies named Joal between 1939 and 2005, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Joal currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1946, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Joal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 25 additional births since 1936.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Joal performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 42 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Joal shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Joal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 97 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.