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Joella

#3,544 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Joel

Joella has been given to 4,204 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,544 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 78 recorded.

Babies named Joella, 2025

1 in 77,100

Joella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joella: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Joel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joella means

Joella is a feminine form of Joel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Joella is a feminine form of Joel. Joel has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,204 girls were recorded with the name Joella between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 78 in 2016; its best national rank was #792 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,645 in 2020 to #3,544 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,982 in 2015 to #3,544 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Joella?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 77,100
43 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 37,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,544
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
53,441 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 53,441 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joella was born before 1968 — so the typical Joella is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
14.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,919
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 14.7% of all recorded uses (617).

Is Joella 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
−235
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−899
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−562
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.1%
Peak was 2016 (78)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#792
1880

Spellings of Joella

Joella is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 37.5% against Joella's 0.45%.

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 Joella is used

Across 2016–2025, Joella was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 50,669 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 20,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Missouri1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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.

Joella around the world

Where Joella 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 & Wales
    1998–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • France
    1939–2025
    #5,132
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1977–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Joella

People whose public names include Joella, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Joella in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Joella. Linked forms have their own page here.

JoelleJuela

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Joella by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,544
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 899
Best rank ever
#792
1880
Peak year
2016
78 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,204
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Joella

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JoettaJoellenJoelleNoellaJoelyAdellaIdellaOzellaJoelJoetteJoeleneNellaCallaLillaJoeyAngellaArdellaMirellaKamillaNovellaJoeannRillaAbellaVella

Names with a curve like Joella

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Joella, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GrettaLuanaGloryTobyEvangelinaRoyceJaneyEstelaCharletteRafaelaCoraleeAdelaida

Sibling names for Joella

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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