Joelee
Joelee was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 142 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joelee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joelee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,256, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2008, the peak
Joelee peaked in 2008, when 13 girls were given it, #9,209 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,256 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,363 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,047 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,946 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,126 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,825 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,989 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,701 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,903 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,209 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #13,222 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,024 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,479 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,106 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,914 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,605 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,937 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,484 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,949 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joelee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joelee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joelee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joelee, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Joelee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 255 people named Joelee (184 women and girls, 71 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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).
How common is the spelling Joelee?
Joelee is a less common spelling of Joely: SSA has recorded 142 Joelee and 1,820 Joely since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,570 babies since 1880, Joelee is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 627 babies recorded by SSA was a Joelee (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joelee
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 Joelee and names like it
- Compare Joelee and JoelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoelee peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Joelee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joelee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.