Joellen
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1958 · 166 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,399since 1922
Joellen over time
Rank among girls' names. Joellen has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
| 1993 | #4,100 | 25 |
| 1992 | #4,528 | 22 |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 |
| 1988 | #3,393 | 28 |
| 1987 | #3,524 | 25 |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 |
| 1984 | #2,470 | 38 |
| 1983 | #2,360 | 40 |
| 1982 | #2,115 | 48 |
| 1981 | #2,028 | 51 |
| 1980 | #1,936 | 55 |
| 1979 | #2,248 | 43 |
| 1978 | #1,893 | 52 |
| 1977 | #1,576 | 68 |
| 1976 | #1,602 | 62 |
| 1975 | #1,625 | 60 |
| 1974 | #1,486 | 66 |
| 1973 | #1,510 | 62 |
| 1972 | #1,242 | 84 |
| 1971 | #1,118 | 105 |
| 1970 | #1,099 | 107 |
| 1969 | #1,109 | 99 |
| 1968 | #1,123 | 90 |
| 1967 | #1,011 | 103 |
| 1966 | #803 | 152 |
| 1965 | #858 | 136 |
| 1964 | #928 | 128 |
| 1963 | #878 | 143 |
| 1962 | #832 | 159 |
| 1961 | #922 | 135 |
| 1960 | #796 | 167 |
| 1959 | #901 | 134 |
| 1958 | #776 | 166 |
| 1957 | #810 | 156 |
| 1956 | #846 | 137 |
| 1955 | #899 | 119 |
| 1954 | #789 | 141 |
| 1953 | #1,001 | 92 |
| 1952 | #897 | 106 |
| 1951 | #834 | 115 |
| 1950 | #782 | 123 |
| 1949 | #843 | 110 |
| 1948 | #845 | 107 |
| 1947 | #780 | 122 |
| 1946 | #897 | 86 |
| 1945 | #810 | 87 |
| 1944 | #846 | 81 |
| 1943 | #916 | 72 |
| 1942 | #921 | 72 |
| 1941 | #903 | 66 |
| 1940 | #944 | 58 |
| 1939 | #960 | 54 |
| 1938 | #1,182 | 38 |
| 1937 | #1,160 | 38 |
| 1936 | #1,150 | 38 |
| 1935 | #1,101 | 40 |
| 1934 | #1,005 | 47 |
| 1933 | #947 | 52 |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 |
| 1931 | #2,307 | 13 |
| 1930 | #1,875 | 19 |
| 1929 | #2,098 | 16 |
| 1928 | #2,623 | 12 |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 |
| 1926 | #3,269 | 9 |
| 1925 | #2,378 | 15 |
| 1924 | #1,643 | 27 |
| 1923 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 |
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| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Joellen! It came in at #3,655, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Joellen is popular in 1966
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#349 · 1 in 3,011
- Wisconsin#374 · 1 in 3,951
- Minnesota#389 · 1 in 4,194
- Connecticut#397 · 1 in 3,674
- Ohio#461 · 1 in 4,732
Best ever in a state: #277 in Iowa, 1950.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #349 | 7 | 1 in 3,011 |
| Wisconsin | #374 | 9 | 1 in 3,951 |
| Minnesota | #389 | 7 | 1 in 4,194 |
| Connecticut | #397 | 6 | 1 in 3,674 |
| Ohio | #461 | 18 | 1 in 4,732 |
| Indiana | #481 | 8 | 1 in 5,257 |
| Massachusetts | #547 | 5 | 1 in 9,008 |
| Missouri | #585 | 5 | 1 in 6,915 |
| Pennsylvania | #669 | 9 | 1 in 9,948 |
| Illinois | #702 | 10 | 1 in 8,799 |
| Michigan | #786 | 6 | 1 in 12,254 |
| New York | #939 | 10 | 1 in 14,583 |
| California | #1,163 | 9 | 1 in 17,083 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Joellen
- 2,781 spots since 2024 (#12,161 → #14,942)
- 3,852 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 930 spots in 1933 (#1,877 → #947)
- Biggest drop: 208 spots in 1967 (#803 → #1,011)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 1958 at #776 (166 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 28 yrs · run 1939–1952
- Highest: 1 in 11,133 girls born in 1966 were named Joellen (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #776 in 1958, was only 1 in 12,118 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all girls named Joellen (1,312) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 97 | #1,643 (1924) | #2,674 |
| 1930s | 357 | #947 (1933) | #1,356 |
| 1940s | 861 | #780 (1947) | #871 |
| 1950s | 1,289 | #776 (1958) | #854 |
| 1960s | 1,312 | #796 (1960) | #926 |
| 1970s | 709 | #1,099 (1970) | #1,540 |
| 1980s | 394 | #1,936 (1980) | #2,629 |
| 1990s | 195 | #3,523 (1990) | #5,832 |
| 2000s | 93 | #8,196 (2001) | #11,210 |
| 2010s | 59 | #9,112 (2019) | #11,645 |
| 2020s | 33 | #11,090 (2020) | #12,923 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Joellen in 1966
Top girls' names in 1966
More about 1966
girls
1,692,177 girls got a published name in 1966; 1 in 11,133 of them was named Joellen, which outranked 89.5% of the 7,624 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #800Beatriz153
- #800Bettina153
- #800Rona153
- #803Joellen152
- #803Cassie152
- #803Glenna152
- #803Henrietta152
- #811Maribeth151
- #811Noel151
- #813Jaime150
Tied with 7 names at #803; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.