Joelly
Joelly was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,967 among girls’ names; 181 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joelly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joelly?
#15,967 among girls’ names, 2025
Joelly fell from #11,337 in 2015 to #15,967 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 3.1 per million.
12 babies in 2009, the peak
Joelly peaked in 2009, when 12 girls were given it, #9,665 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,967 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,205 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,578 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,208 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,759 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,920 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,259 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,337 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,434 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,587 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #10,800 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,686 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,274 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,665 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,164 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,435 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,212 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,753 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,306 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,916 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,382 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,197 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,790 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,078 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joelly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joelly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joelly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joelly, and how old are they?
An estimated 179 Americans named Joelly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 205 people named Joelly (197 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 157 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% above 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 Joelly?
Joelly is a less common spelling of Joely: SSA has recorded 181 Joelly and 1,820 Joely since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,069 babies since 1880, Joelly is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 330 babies (1.5%), the seventh 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 Joelly
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 Joelly and names like it
- Compare Joelly and JoelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoelly peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Joelly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joelly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.