as a First Name
Borrowing of the fashionable French name Joëlle, a feminine form of Joel. Its selection as a given name may also have been influenced by the fact that it can be taken as a combination of Jo and the productive suffix -elle (originally a French feminine diminutive ending).
| 1,928th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,318
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New York
- has the most people named Joelle per capita
- 1968
- marked the height of its popularity
99.83%
0.17%
0.68%
55+
55+
37%
30-54
30-54
26%
13-29
13-29
36%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
