Jonell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Jonell

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,452 babies named Jonell between 1918 and 2016, spanning 99 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jonell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1953, when 58 babies received it in a single year. Jonell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 224 additional births since 1977.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jonell performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 453 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Jonell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 281 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Jonell in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jonell 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 2,452 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.