Joelle
- Pronunciation
- [Jole, Jo-elle]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Jehovah Is God. Feminine Of Joel.
- Origin
- French
About the Name Joelle
Joelle is the French feminine form of Joel, a Hebrew name traditionally understood to mean "Jehovah is God" — a declaration of faith built from the divine elements Yo and El. The -elle ending lends it a softly Gallic finish, and the name is sometimes written Joëlle in French, where the diaeresis signals that both vowels are sounded separately. That pairing of an ancient scriptural meaning with a polished continental surface gives the name a quiet depth beneath its elegant sound.
That dual heritage has long made Joelle attractive to parents who want a name that feels both rooted and refined, devout in origin yet thoroughly modern in style. It first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000, reached its modern peak in 2017 at #673, and has stayed inside the rankings since, sitting at #919 in 2024 after a place at #937 the year before and #785 in 2022. That steadiness over more than two decades marks it as a durable choice rather than a passing fashion.
Pronounced Jole or Jo-elle, the name offers two syllables of understated elegance and the warm, friendly nickname Jo. Recorded variants include Joellen and Joely, giving families related forms with slightly different rhythms — the first lengthening the name into something more formal, the second softening it into a breezier, more casual register.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Joelle
US Popularity History (2000–2024)
Annual US births named Joelle by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2017 with 436 girls named Joelle (girl rank #673 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2024, ranked #919 for girls (288 US births). That's 246 places below its 2017 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Joelle Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Joelle the strongest states are Michigan, Oregon, Iowa.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michigan | #515 | 165 |
| 2 | Oregon | #520 | 28 |
| 3 | Iowa | #580 | 28 |
| 4 | Ohio | #594 | 173 |
| 5 | New Jersey | #596 | 121 |
| 6 | Indiana | #600 | 91 |
| 7 | Minnesota | #609 | 63 |
| 8 | Wisconsin | #612 | 76 |
| 9 | Virginia | #615 | 117 |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | #625 | 156 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | #961 | 67 |
| 2 | Arizona | #883 | 36 |
| 3 | Georgia | #878 | 76 |
| 4 | Alabama | #849 | 16 |
| 5 | Tennessee | #835 | 58 |
| 6 | Illinois | #797 | 122 |
| 7 | North Carolina | #781 | 61 |
| 8 | Massachusetts | #761 | 32 |
| 9 | New York | #750 | 134 |
| 10 | Colorado | #740 | 59 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Joelle in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Joelle to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Joelle against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).