Johnel
Johnel was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 252 Americans have been recorded with it between 1949 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Johnel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Johnel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,024, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1990, the peak
Johnel peaked in 1990, when 10 boys were given it, #5,168 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #13,024 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,419 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,289 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,939 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,718 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,216 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,753 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,520 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,695 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,410 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | #7,353 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,652 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,966 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,051 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,204 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,168 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,088 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,492 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,219 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,789 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,840 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,090 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,774 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,839 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,654 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,332 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,663 | 4.3 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,231 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,234 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,179 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,819 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,481 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,342 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,847 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,275 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,913 | 4.2 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,127 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,629 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,152 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Johnel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 252 Americans recorded as Johnel, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Johnel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Johnel, and how old are they?
An estimated 224 Americans named Johnel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 31 and 56. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 366 people named Johnel (90 women and girls, 276 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Johnel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Johnel is a less common spelling of Johnell: SSA has recorded 252 Johnel and 1,594 Johnell since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Johnel
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.