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Johel

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Johel has been given to 41 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 1993, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Johel, 2017

1 in 596,000

Johel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Johel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Johel means

Johel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Johel is used in Old Czech.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Johel is pronounced /ˈjoɣɛɫ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 41 boys were recorded with the name Johel between 1993 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1993; its best national rank was #6,501 in 1993.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Johel?

Johel 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 boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Johel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Johel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Johels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Johel was born before 2010 — so the typical Johel is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
41
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.7% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Johel 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 1993 (8)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,501
1993

Spellings of Johel

Johel is not the most common spelling — John is, with 76.9% against Johel'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.

Johel around the world

Where Johel 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.

  • France
    1934–1955
    #767
    in 1955

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Johel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,501
1993
Peak year
1993
8 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Johel

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

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Sibling names for Johel

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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