# Joelle (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/joelle/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 16,640 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 525 / 16,115 (97% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 367, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 224 | 1,100 |
| 2012 | 221 | 1,122 |
| 2013 | 228 | 1,083 |
| 2014 | 250 | 1,039 |
| 2015 | 243 | 1,080 |
| 2016 | 363 | 784 |
| 2017 | 436 | 673 |
| 2018 | 416 | 699 |
| 2019 | 411 | 704 |
| 2020 | 359 | 762 |
| 2021 | 389 | 734 |
| 2022 | 362 | 785 |
| 2023 | 284 | 935 |
| 2024 | 289 | 922 |
| 2025 | 248 | 1,010 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 5,310 |
| 2012 | 22 | 4,460 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,519 |
| 2014 | 19 | 4,966 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,396 |
| 2016 | 24 | 4,251 |
| 2017 | 20 | 4,836 |
| 2018 | 24 | 4,294 |
| 2019 | 22 | 4,546 |
| 2020 | 23 | 4,339 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,227 |
| 2022 | 15 | 5,995 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,340 |
| 2024 | 16 | 5,769 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,889 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 2,025 |
| 2012 | 11 | 2,338 |
| 2013 | 6 | 3,536 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 16 | 1,834 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2,502 |
| 2018 | 11 | 2,340 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 16 | 1,785 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,488 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3,015 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,440 |

## People named Joelle

- Joelle Carter, American actress (born 1972)
- Joëlle Ursull, French singer
- Joelle Numainville, Canadian racing cyclist
- Joëlle Milquet, Belgian federal Minister of the Interior
- Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin, Cameroonian triple and long jumper
- Joelle, actress and singer
- Joëlle Smits, Dutch association football player (2000-)
- Joëlle Mélin, French politician
- Joëlle Léandre, French double bassist, vocalist and composer
- Joelle Wedemeyer, German association football player
- JoJo Siwa, American dancer, singer, actress, and YouTube personality (born 2003)
- Céline Tran, French pornographic actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.