Joeli
Joeli was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,967 among girls’ names; 238 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joeli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joeli?
#13,967 among girls’ names, 2025
Joeli entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,967 in 2025.
15 babies in 1969, the peak
Joeli peaked in 1969, when 15 girls were given it, #3,686 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,967 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,735 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,383 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,739 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,758 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,330 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,429 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,739 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,856 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,778 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 | #11,029 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,210 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,223 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,250 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,751 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,465 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,210 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,571 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,940 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,099 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,748 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,221 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,126 | 5.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,477 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,105 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,447 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,686 | 8.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joeli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joeli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joeli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joeli, and how old are they?
An estimated 234 Americans named Joeli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 321 people named Joeli (283 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 212 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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 Joeli?
Joeli is a less common spelling of Joely: SSA has recorded 238 Joeli and 1,820 Joely since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 38,555 babies since 1880, Joeli is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 563 babies (1.1%), 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 Joeli
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 Joeli and names like it
- Compare Joeli and JoelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJoeli peaked in 1969.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Joeli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joeli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.