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.

# 936 in the US

Joelle Rank in US Top 1000

Joelle Popularity

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"