Joelle
The girl's name Joelle has been in the national records since 1918, with 16,640 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,008th. About 16,000 Joelles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Joelle boys named Joelle
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,640
- Estimated living today
- 16,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 673rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,008th
- First recorded
- 1918
- Girls / boys
- 16,115 / 525
How old the living Joelles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,640 babies given the name since 1918, about 16,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 5,700 of them are children and 360 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French, from Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Joelles
- Joelle Carter (born 1972)American actress
- Joëlle Ursull (born 1960)French singer
- Joelle Numainville (born 1987)Canadian racing cyclist
- Joëlle Milquet (born 1961)Belgian federal Minister of the Interior
People named Joelle with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Joelle is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Joelle is most concentrated in New Jersey (2.2×), Washington (1.9×), New York (1.8×), California (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular girls’ names the year Joelle peaked:
Joelle elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Joëlle +1 spelling | 93,740 | 16th |
| Switzerland girls | Joelle +1 spelling | 955 | 119th |
| England and Wales girls | Joelle | 367 | 1,036th |
| Belgium girls | Joëlle | 319 | 419th |
| Ireland girls | Joelle | 14 | 442nd |
| Scotland girls | Joelle | 6 | 621st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Joelle: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Joelle | 530 | 0.043% | 92nd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Joëlle | 345 | 0.028% | 148th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Joëlle | 38 | 0.009% | 218th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Joelle | 14 | 0.003% | 203rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Joelle | 21 | 0.032% | 118th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Joëlle | 5 | 0.008% | 164th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Joelle | 2 | 0.054% | 10th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Joelle is most concentrated in Solothurn, where 0.11% of children were given it – 56 of them.
Joelle: rank by region
In 2025, Joelle was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Joëlle | 329 | 16 |
In 2021, Joelle was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Joelle | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Joelle appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (77th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Joelle by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Joelle among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Joëlle | 3,120 | 5,317 |
| the Netherlands boys | Joëlle | 8 | 30 |
| Finland girls | Joelle +1 spelling | 8 | 22 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Joelle against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.