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How popular is “Joelle” in the USA?

Number of people named “Joelle” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Joelle” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Joelle” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Joelle” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Joelle” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Joelle” by birth year

This chart shows how “Joelle” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1918 5 0.000002303 5 100%
1933 9 0.000004501 9 100%
1934 6 0.000002889 6 100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 100%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 100%
1942 13 0.000004759 13 100%
1943 13 0.000004606 13 100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 100%
1945 15 0.000005654 15 100%
1946 20 0.000006259 20 100%
1947 28 0.000007773 28 100%
1948 30 0.000008689 30 100%
1949 22 0.000006313 22 100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 100%
1951 18 0.000004886 18 100%
1952 23 0.000006056 23 100%
1953 25 0.000006487 25 100%
1954 26 0.000006532 26 100%
1955 35 0.000008717 35 100%
1956 27 0.000006549 27 100%
1957 28 0.000006663 28 100%
1958 32 0.000007741 32 100%
1959 25 0.000006013 25 100%
1960 30 0.000007222 30 100%
1961 30 0.000007242 30 100%
1962 28 0.000006939 28 100%
1963 39 0.000009853 39 100%
1964 31 0.000007974 31 100%
1965 91 0.0000251 91 100%
1966 406 0.000116813 406 100%
1967 375 0.00011046 375 100%
1968 390 0.000115439 390 100%
1969 320 0.000092078 320 100%
1970 299 0.000082906 299 100%
1971 210 0.000061182 210 100%
1972 191 0.00006077 191 100%
1973 159 0.000052703 159 100%
1974 165 0.000054276 165 100%
1975 179 0.000059283 179 100%
1976 157 0.000051742 157 100%
1977 171 0.000053833 171 100%
1978 181 0.000057028 181 100%
1979 166 0.000049895 166 100%
1980 177 0.000051386 177 100%
1981 160 0.000046251 160 100%
1982 167 0.000047606 167 100%
1983 162 0.000046776 162 100%
1984 198 0.000056754 198 100%
1985 279 0.000078171 272 7 95%
1986 284 0.000079841 284 100%
1987 292 0.000080985 287 5 97%
1988 247 0.000066846 240 7 94%
1989 249 0.000064769 241 8 94%
1990 263 0.000066541 255 8 94%
1991 256 0.000065721 248 8 94%
1992 226 0.000058835 214 12 89%
1993 232 0.000061534 224 8 93%
1994 263 0.000070744 256 7 95%
1995 251 0.000068539 245 6 95%
1996 242 0.000066352 235 7 94%
1997 262 0.000072261 252 10 92%
1998 263 0.000071502 254 9 93%
1999 260 0.000070387 253 7 95%
2000 252 0.000066668 243 9 93%
2001 240 0.000064113 233 7 94%
2002 252 0.00006741 244 8 94%
2003 269 0.000070746 264 5 96%
2004 273 0.000071449 257 16 88%
2005 231 0.00006008 220 11 90%
2006 253 0.00006395 234 19 85%
2007 278 0.00006954 259 19 86%
2008 275 0.000069963 256 19 86%
2009 244 0.000063871 228 16 87%
2010 237 0.000064128 222 15 87%
2011 241 0.000065887 224 17 86%
2012 243 0.000066441 221 22 82%
2013 244 0.000066929 228 16 87%
2014 269 0.000072578 250 19 86%
2015 260 0.000070253 243 17 87%
2016 387 0.000105487 363 24 88%
2017 456 0.00012751 436 20 91%
2018 440 0.000125146 416 24 89%
2019 433 0.00012475 411 22 90%
2020 382 0.000114352 359 23 88%
2021 406 0.000119837 388 18 91%
2022 376 0.00011114 361 15 92%
2023 297 0.000089696 283 14 91%
2024 304 0.000091332 288 16 89%

Explore other names

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