Joelle

jo-el

Feminine variation of Joel, Hebrew

"Jehovah is his God"

Joelle Origin and Meaning

The name Joelle is a girl's name meaning "Jehovah is his God".

Joel is one of those boys’ names that's never been super-popular yet has never been UNpopular either -- it's been in the Top 400 in the US since we started keeping statistics in 1880. So it's inevitable that its female form Joelle would gain visibility too, and indeed Joelle was used most widely during Joel's reign in the Top 100, from the late 1960s through the early 1990s.

Joelle reentered the US Top 1000 in 2016 after a decade long absence. It had been just outside the Top 1000 almost all of those years, so its reentry is no surprise. It's also popular in the Netherlands. Joelle is one of the girl names starting with J that strikes the balance between familiar and unusual.

Pronunciation is distinctively two syllables, as if it were two names: Jo Elle. Joel, on the other hand, rhymes with bowl and roll.

Joelle Rank in US Top 1000

# 936 in the US

Joelle Popularity

• 936 US 2023
• 1441 Nameberry 2024
• 622 Future 2028

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Famous People Named Joelle

• Joelle Marie Carter American actress
• Joelle Hadjia Australian pop singer
• Joelle ten Damme Dutch actress and singer
• Joëlle Choupay Mogensen, American pop singer
• Joelle Forte American figure skater
• Joelle Amery English singer and alopecia activist
• Joelle Maryn American actress and model
• Joëlle Wintrebert French novelist
• Joëlle Ursull Guadeloupean,French singer
• Joëlle Milquet Belgian politician
• Joëlle Léandre French bassist
• Joelle Joanie “Jojo" Siwa American reality TV personality ('Dance Moms')
• Joelle Murray Scottish football player
• Shea Joelle James (b. 2007) daughter of actor Kevin James
• Joelle Killam (b. 2015) daughter of actors Cobie Smulders and Taran Killam
• Joelle “Jojo” Fletcher Bachelorette

Joelle in Pop Culture

• Joelle Van Dyne character in "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace
• Joëlle character in French film "Day for Night"
• Joelle Fillmore mother to the main character on animated series "Fillmore"