Joal
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Joal has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1946, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.
Babies named Joal, 2005
1 in 769,000
Joal over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Joal over time
In 2005, Joal went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Joal?
Joal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Joal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Joals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Joal was born before 1981 — so the typical Joal is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 43.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 84
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Joal rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1946 (8)
- Years since peak
- 79
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.1% average annual change
Spellings of Joal
Joal is not the most common spelling — John is, with 61.6% against Joal's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Joal around the world
Where Joal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2001–2001#3,134in 2001
- South Australia1962–1991#481in 1991
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Joal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Joal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Joal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.