Jonelle
Jonelle was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,465 among girls’ names; 3,260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,870 Americans named Jonelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 35 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jonelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jonelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jonelle is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jonelle?
#10,465 among girls’ names, 2025
Jonelle fell from #8,674 in 2015 to #10,465 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 5.6 per million.
137 babies in 1981, the peak
Jonelle peaked in 1981, when 137 girls were given it, #1,047 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,465 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,740 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,690 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,321 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,883 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,652 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,920 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,337 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,106 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,406 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,674 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,462 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,329 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,857 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,591 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,703 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,035 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,211 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,287 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,954 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,657 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,835 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,422 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,158 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,444 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,359 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,533 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,287 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,788 | 25.3 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,875 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,895 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,808 | 24.1 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,608 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,700 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,752 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,494 | 25.3 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,490 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,056 | 32.0 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,754 | 39.1 |
| 1986 | 87 | #1,462 | 50.7 |
| 1985 | 113 | #1,220 | 65.7 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,736 | 37.4 |
| 1983 | 65 | #1,694 | 38.9 |
| 1982 | 115 | #1,188 | 67.9 |
| 1981 | 137 | #1,047 | 82.1 |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,305 | 59.0 |
| 1979 | 87 | #1,413 | 54.2 |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,428 | 52.9 |
| 1977 | 84 | #1,351 | 54.8 |
| 1976 | 75 | #1,411 | 51.2 |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,356 | 54.2 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,783 | 34.1 |
| 1973 | 51 | #1,742 | 35.0 |
| 1972 | 52 | #1,705 | 34.2 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,269 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,180 | 21.2 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,851 | 26.7 |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,070 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,572 | 31.5 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,867 | 22.5 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,045 | 18.7 |
| 1964 | 28 | #2,323 | 14.8 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,389 | 13.5 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,432 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,385 | 12.9 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,269 | 13.4 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,036 | 15.3 |
| 1958 | 31 | #2,003 | 15.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,377 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,605 | 21.9 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,925 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,000 | 14.4 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,263 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,798 | 16.7 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,787 | 16.7 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,487 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,303 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,284 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,737 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,941 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,678 | 19.1 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,149 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,386 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 16 | #2,258 | 11.8 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,314 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,488 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,836 | 17.3 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,982 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,874 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,205 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,576 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,235 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,996 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,162 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,874 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,848 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,858 | 6.3 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,442 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,953 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,565 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,214 | 5.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,318 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jonelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jonelle has been given almost only to girls: 21 boys in 102 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jonelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jonelle, and how old are they?
2,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 3,260 Americans ever recorded as Jonelle. The median Jonelle alive today is 45 years old; half are between 35 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 2,971 people named Jonelle (2,898 women and girls, 73 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,920 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 82 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 399 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 875 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 331 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 154 |
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 Jonelle born?
The states with the most babies named Jonelle are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 287 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 286 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 152 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Hawaii | 22 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jonelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jonelle is most over-represented in New York: since 1923 it was given 1.2 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 Jonelle 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,943 babies since 1880, Jonelle is the most given (83% 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 Jonelle
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 Jonelle and names like it
- Compare Jonelle and JohnelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJonelle peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jonelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jonelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jonelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.