Girls' name · since 2014
Joule
35 babies named Joule in U.S. Social Security records since 2014, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 35
- total births
- 2014–2020
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 86%
- born in that decade
Joule is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 35 have been recorded since 2014.
Joule has 35 recorded births among girls since 2014, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2020.
- 35 total births
- 2014–2020 years on record
- 2010s peak decade
- 86% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Joule's 35 recorded births place it above 46% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joule's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Joule's full recorded timeline at 2018, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2014, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2019 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Joule popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2020
- Peak year (2019)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Joule by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2010s was Joule's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 86% of all-time use.
Joule births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
30 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 30 births (86% of all-time use).
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- Joule's decade-level peak was the 2010s (30 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 2014–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Joule: Baby Name Since 2014 - 35 Births, Peak 2019." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/joule. 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 Joule 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.