Joely
#8,079 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Joely has been given to 1,820 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #8,079 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 95 recorded.
Babies named Joely, 2025
1 in 255,000
Joely 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Joely?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,079
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Joely sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joely. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Joelys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Joely was born before 2002 — so the typical Joely is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 32.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 55.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,820
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (592).
Is Joely 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
- −3,127
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,996
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,049
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 13.7%
- Peak was 1969 (95)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.0% average annual change
Spellings of Joely
Joely is not the most common spelling — Holly is, with 19.6% against Joely's 0.17%.
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 Joely is used
Across 1910–2025, Joely was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 170,057 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Hawaii1 in 100,000
- 3New York1 in 100,000
- 4Texas1 in 100,000
- 5Colorado1 in —
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 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. Joely has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Joely around the world
Where Joely 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 & Wales1996–2025#5,927in 2025
- Scotland2005–2006#606in 2006
- France1996–2021#6,284in 2021
- Canada1997–2011#3,211in 2011
- South Australia2008–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.
Joely by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Joely
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Joely
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.