Jonel — #11174 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jonel

The Social Security Administration has registered 362 babies named Jonel between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jonel currently holds the #11174 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Jonel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 328 additional births since 1933.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jonel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Jonel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 17 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Jonel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jonel 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 362 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.