Joelle — #921 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Joelle

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,863 babies named Joelle between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Joelle currently holds the #921 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 436 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Joelle performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,014 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Joelle shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,135 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Joelle in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Joelle 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 15,863 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.