Recorded 1918–2025 · United States
Joelle was most popular in 2017, when 456 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,229 that year. In 2025 it ranked #1,902, with 253 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 16,640 people named Joelle.
Joelle first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1918, which makes it about 107 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 93 of the 108 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 16,640 American births named Joelle between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 16,069 are estimated to be alive today.
253 American babies were named Joelle in 2025, ranking #1,902 that year.
Joelle is rising. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 328 births a year, against 251 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +30% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Joelle is a girl’s name — 96.8% of the 16,640 Americans given it were girls and 3.2% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 95% girls and 5% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 16,069 Americans named Joelle are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 28 years old, and half are between 12 and 45. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org