Boys' name · since 1949
Johnel
247 babies named Johnel in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 247
- total births
- 1949–2013
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 23%
- born in that decade
247 boys have been named Johnel since 1949, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Johnel has 247 recorded births among boys since 1949, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1949 to 2013.
- 247 total births
- 1949–2013 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 23% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Johnel's 247 recorded births place it above 74% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Johnel's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Johnel splits its recorded history at 1984: 51% of all births land in the more recent half, 49% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1955 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1990 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Johnel popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1949–2013
- Peak year (1990)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 65 years of records
Johnel popularity over time - girls
5 total births recorded since 1971 (Johnel as girls' name)
Johnel by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Johnel's strongest decade.
58 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 23% of all-time use.
Johnel births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 7
1940s
7 births
- 1950s
1950s
25 births
- 1960s
1960s
42 births
- 1970s
1970s
41 births
- 1980s
1980s
29 births
- 1990s
1990s
58 births
- 2000s
2000s
40 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 58 births (23% of all-time use).
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- Johnel's decade-level peak was the 1990s (58 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1949–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Johnel: Baby Name Since 1949 - 247 Births, Peak 1990." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/johnel. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Johnel draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.