first name
JOELLE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 14,728 people named Joelle, 67.6% reported their origin as White, 13.5% as Black and 8.4% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.8% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Joelle peaked in 2017, when 456 babies got the name.
At least 16,640 babies have been given the name since 1918. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Joelle by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,341. The largest share of babies named Joelle, 27.1%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Joelle is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Joelle has been most common in New Jersey (2.2×), Washington (1.9×), and New York (1.8×), and least common in South Carolina (0.29×).
12,593 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Joelle, most common first.
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