Jonell
Jonell was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 2,676 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Jonell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 42 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jonell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,440, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1953, the peak
Jonell peaked in 1953, when 58 girls were given it, #1,283 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #17,440 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,059 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,843 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,417 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,351 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,414 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,486 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,479 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,545 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,008 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 12 | #7,330 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,918 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,153 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,305 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,931 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,070 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,657 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,713 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,378 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,040 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,094 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,904 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,951 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,013 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,829 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,808 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,769 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,024 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,816 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,941 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,354 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,581 | 20.6 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,946 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,196 | 24.7 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,778 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 28 | #2,628 | 16.8 |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,544 | 16.6 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,419 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,326 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,187 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,780 | 24.2 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,775 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,873 | 21.1 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,963 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,871 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,014 | 16.8 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,220 | 13.8 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,729 | 20.3 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,641 | 21.4 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,557 | 23.5 |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,772 | 17.9 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,341 | 29.2 |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,524 | 22.7 |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,283 | 30.8 |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,305 | 29.1 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,471 | 22.8 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,694 | 18.1 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,270 | 30.4 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,914 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 47 | #1,345 | 26.5 |
| 1946 | 47 | #1,260 | 29.9 |
| 1945 | 48 | #1,134 | 36.7 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,326 | 27.9 |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,542 | 21.5 |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,287 | 28.9 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,255 | 30.6 |
| 1940 | 46 | #1,068 | 40.2 |
| 1939 | 31 | #1,330 | 28.3 |
| 1938 | 42 | #1,120 | 38.1 |
| 1937 | 52 | #970 | 48.9 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,194 | 34.6 |
| 1935 | 44 | #1,045 | 42.0 |
| 1934 | 40 | #1,125 | 38.3 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,427 | 26.8 |
| 1932 | 37 | #1,183 | 34.7 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,472 | 24.4 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,304 | 30.2 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,355 | 28.7 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,751 | 19.9 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,952 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,904 | 17.7 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,331 | 13.1 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,738 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,235 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,987 | 16.7 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,039 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,785 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,039 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,663 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,676 Americans recorded as Jonell, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jonell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonell, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 2,676 Americans ever recorded as Jonell. The median Jonell alive today is 58 years old; half are between 42 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 2,180 people named Jonell (1,926 women and girls, 254 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,053 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 206 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 617 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 456 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 161 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 22 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jonell born?
The states with the most babies named Jonell are Texas, Kentucky and California, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 281 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 124 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| California | 85 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jonell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jonell is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1918 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jonell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,818 babies since 1880, Jonell is the most given (95% of them).
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 Jonell
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 Jonell and names like it
- Compare Jonell and JoanellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sJonell peaked in 1953.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonell since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Jonell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Jonell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.