Jodelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jodelle has been given to 324 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 1955, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Jodelle, 2017
1 in 596,000
Jodelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jodelle?
Jodelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 596,000
- 6 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 288,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 413,245 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jodelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jodelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jodelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jodelle was born before 1960 — so the typical Jodelle is around 65 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 34.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 281
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (113).
Is Jodelle 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1955 (15)
- Years since peak
- 70
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.5% average annual change
Spellings of Jodelle
Jodelle is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 32.0% against Jodelle's 0.18%.
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.
Where Jodelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Jodelle was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 202,101 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jodelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jodelle around the world
Where Jodelle 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 & Wales2024–2024#4,193in 2024
- France1989–1989#2,715in 1989
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jodelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jodelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jodelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.