Joelle
Joelle was given to 248 girls in 2025, #1,010 among girls’ names; 16,640 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,000 Americans named Joelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 12 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joelle is “a female given name from French Joëlle [in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Joel.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joelle?
#1,010 among girls’ names, 2025
Joelle rose from #1,080 in 2015 to #1,010 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.14 to 0.15 per 1,000.
456 babies in 2017, the peak
Joelle peaked in 2017, when 456 babies were given it (436 girls, #673 among girls’ names). The 253 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #1,010 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 289 | #922 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 284 | #935 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 362 | #785 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 389 | #734 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 359 | #762 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 411 | #704 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 416 | #699 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 436 | #673 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 363 | #784 | 0.20 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 243 | #1,080 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 250 | #1,039 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 228 | #1,083 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 221 | #1,122 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 224 | #1,100 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 222 | #1,110 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 228 | #1,114 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 256 | #1,025 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 259 | #1,021 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 234 | #1,084 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 220 | #1,082 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 257 | #936 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 264 | #903 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 244 | #916 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 233 | #950 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 243 | #902 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 253 | #856 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 254 | #838 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 252 | #821 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 235 | #848 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 245 | #809 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 256 | #794 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 224 | #866 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 214 | #913 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 248 | #826 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 255 | #789 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 241 | #788 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 240 | #785 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 287 | #655 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 284 | #648 | 0.17 |
| 1985 | 272 | #666 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 198 | #802 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 162 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 167 | #908 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 160 | #934 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 177 | #870 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 166 | #899 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 181 | #827 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 171 | #861 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 157 | #868 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 179 | #786 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 165 | #817 | 0.11 |
| 1973 | 159 | #826 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 191 | #733 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 210 | #723 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 299 | #585 | 0.17 |
| 1969 | 320 | #552 | 0.19 |
| 1968 | 390 | #490 | 0.24 |
| 1967 | 375 | #492 | 0.23 |
| 1966 | 406 | #469 | 0.24 |
| 1965 | 91 | #1,100 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,169 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,878 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,283 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,170 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,310 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,962 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,087 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,127 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,780 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,099 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,095 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,164 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,428 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,079 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,120 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,278 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,335 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,630 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,593 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,119 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,081 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,661 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,824 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,523 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,036 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,995 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,194 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,640 Americans recorded as Joelle, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 248 girls and 5 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Joelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joelle, and how old are they?
16,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 16,640 Americans ever recorded as Joelle. The median Joelle alive today is 28 years old; half are between 12 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 14,728 people named Joelle (14,256 women and girls, 472 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 52 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 406 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,360 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,480 |
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 Joelle born?
The states with the most babies named Joelle are California, New York and Texas, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 31 | #923 | 1.1× |
| New York | 19 | #843 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 16 | #1,497 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #667 | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #687 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 11 | #706 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,370 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 10 | #723 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 10 | #628 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 9 | #991 | 0.8× |
Where Joelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joelle is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1918 it was given 1.6 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 Joelle 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,506 babies since 1880, Joelle is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 253 of their 628 babies (40%), again the 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 Joelle
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 Joelle and names like it
- Compare Joelle and JolieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJoelle peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joelle since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Joelle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Joelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Joelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.