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Jonel

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jonel has been given to 690 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 2006, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% boys, 48% girls all-time.

Babies named Jonel, 2024

1 in 557,000

Jonel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Jonel over time

In 2024, Jonel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19332024

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.

Jonel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jonel means

Jonel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jonel is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 362 boys were recorded with the name Jonel between 1974 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2006; its best national rank was #4,000 in 1994.

In the United States, 328 girls were recorded with the name Jonel between 1933 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1993; its best national rank was #3,008 in 1945.

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 Jonel?

Jonel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jonel 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jonel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jonels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jonel was born before 2001 — so the typical Jonel is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
362
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2000s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (100).

Is Jonel 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 2006 (19)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,000
1994

Spellings of Jonel

Jonel is not the most common spelling — Jose is, with 31.4% against Jonel's 0.02%.

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 Jonel is used

Across 1910–2025, Jonel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 783,755 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Jonel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jonel around the world

Where Jonel 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
    2005–2005
    #3,849
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Jonel 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
#4,000
1994
Peak year
2006
19 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
362
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,008
1945
Peak year
1993
16 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
328
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jonel

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

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Sibling names for Jonel

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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