Unisex name · since 1965
Jonnell
Jonnell has 58 recorded births since 1965 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1965 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 58
- total births
- 1965–1986
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 43%
- born in that decade
58 girls have been named Jonnell since 1965, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Jonnell has 58 recorded births among girls since 1965, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1965 to 1986.
- 58 total births
- 1965–1986 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 43% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jonnell's 58 recorded births place it above 54% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jonnell's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jonnell's SSA record in two at 1982 and the more recent half accounts for 43% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 57%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1968, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1965 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jonnell popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1965–1986
- Peak year (1965)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 22 years of records
Jonnell popularity over time - boys
11 total births recorded since 1989 (Jonnell as boys' name)
Jonnell by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Jonnell's strongest decade.
25 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Jonnell births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
13 births
- 1970s
1970s
20 births
- 1980s
1980s
25 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 25 births (43% of all-time use).
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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, 1965–1986 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jonnell: Baby Name Since 1965 - 58 Births, Peak 1965." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jonnell. 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 Jonnell 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.