Joelle
Joelle is ranked 919th among girls in 2024 (288 births). Its best rank was 469th, in 1966.
- Rank in 2024
- #919up 18 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2880.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 2017436 births
- Best rank
- #469in 1966
- Since 1918
- 16,383people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,863 girls have been named Joelle in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 436 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2010s alone account for 19%. It has spent 48 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 520 boys have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Joelle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 50 | |
| 1940s | 174 | |
| 1950s | 261 | |
| 1960s | 1,740 | |
| 1970s | 1,878 | |
| 1980s | 2,188 | |
| 1990s | 2,436 | |
| 2000s | 2,438 | |
| 2010s | 3,014 | |
| 2020s | 1,679 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Joelle was the 673rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2017 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Joelle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marapeak 2021
- Adinapeak 2024
- Joriepeak 1991
- Rimapeak 2015
- Tovapeak 2023
- Julypeak 2020
- Silvanapeak 2007
- Diapeak 2015
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.