Joellen
Joellen was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,966 among girls’ names; 5,399 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,170 Americans named Joellen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 52 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joellen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joellen?
#15,966 among girls’ names, 2025
Joellen entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,966 in 2025.
167 babies in 1960, the peak
Joellen peaked in 1960, when 167 girls were given it, #797 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,966 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,736 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,644 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,340 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,545 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,380 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,059 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,128 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,258 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,487 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 11 | #10,024 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,822 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,906 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,825 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,087 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,211 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,677 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,532 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,993 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,833 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,439 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,829 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,942 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,196 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,106 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,947 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,405 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,738 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,156 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,594 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,513 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,554 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,603 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,422 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,561 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,311 | 25.6 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,617 | 21.5 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,491 | 22.6 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,369 | 23.9 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,128 | 28.3 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,038 | 30.6 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,948 | 33.1 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,255 | 26.8 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,898 | 33.9 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,583 | 44.4 |
| 1976 | 62 | #1,608 | 42.3 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,633 | 41.2 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,492 | 45.0 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,515 | 42.5 |
| 1972 | 84 | #1,244 | 55.2 |
| 1971 | 105 | #1,122 | 63.1 |
| 1970 | 107 | #1,102 | 61.2 |
| 1969 | 99 | #1,114 | 58.7 |
| 1968 | 90 | #1,129 | 54.9 |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,013 | 62.4 |
| 1966 | 152 | #807 | 89.8 |
| 1965 | 136 | #859 | 77.0 |
| 1964 | 128 | #929 | 67.6 |
| 1963 | 143 | #878 | 74.2 |
| 1962 | 159 | #834 | 80.9 |
| 1961 | 135 | #925 | 66.9 |
| 1960 | 167 | #797 | 82.6 |
| 1959 | 134 | #901 | 66.2 |
| 1958 | 166 | #776 | 82.5 |
| 1957 | 156 | #810 | 76.3 |
| 1956 | 137 | #846 | 68.2 |
| 1955 | 119 | #900 | 60.9 |
| 1954 | 141 | #791 | 72.6 |
| 1953 | 92 | #1,002 | 48.9 |
| 1952 | 106 | #899 | 57.2 |
| 1951 | 115 | #833 | 63.9 |
| 1950 | 123 | #781 | 71.8 |
| 1949 | 110 | #842 | 64.3 |
| 1948 | 107 | #845 | 63.0 |
| 1947 | 122 | #782 | 68.8 |
| 1946 | 86 | #902 | 54.7 |
| 1945 | 87 | #813 | 66.6 |
| 1944 | 81 | #848 | 61.0 |
| 1943 | 72 | #916 | 51.6 |
| 1942 | 72 | #923 | 53.3 |
| 1941 | 66 | #907 | 54.6 |
| 1940 | 58 | #949 | 50.7 |
| 1939 | 54 | #970 | 49.2 |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,192 | 34.4 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,169 | 35.7 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,155 | 36.5 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,110 | 38.1 |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,014 | 45.0 |
| 1933 | 52 | #953 | 51.6 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,911 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,359 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,906 | 16.9 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,132 | 14.3 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,687 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,167 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,399 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,429 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,659 | 21.6 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,830 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joellen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joellen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joellen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joellen, and how old are they?
4,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 5,399 Americans ever recorded as Joellen. The median Joellen alive today is 63 years old; half are between 52 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 7,130 people named Joellen (7,127 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,485 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 311 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,920 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,240 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 482 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 147 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 73 |
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 Joellen born?
The states with the most babies named Joellen are Ohio, New York and Illinois, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 372 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 345 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 325 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 279 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 247 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 227 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 220 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Iowa | 143 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Wisconsin | 135 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 95 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Joellen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joellen is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1922 it was given 1.7 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 Joellen 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,266 babies since 1880, Joellen is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 26 babies (19%), again the second 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 Joellen
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 Joellen and names like it
- Compare Joellen and JoleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJoellen peaked in 1960.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joellen since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Joellen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joellen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.