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Joel
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒoʊ(ə)l/
Rank in 2024
#219
Born in 2024
1,633
Peak year
1985 · #67
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:7 in 2024 (#12,856)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,633 boys were named Joel, about 1 in every 1,050.
- It peaked in 1985 with 4,623 babies, ranked #67.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 277,996 boys have been named Joel since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Joel per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.9Silent1928–45
- 1.4Boomers1946–64
- 2.2Gen X1965–80
- 2.1Millennials1981–96
- 1.7Gen Z1997–12
- 1.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5,555 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Silent: 18,791 babies, 0.91 per 1,000. Boomers: 52,915 babies, 1.41 per 1,000. Gen X: 58,728 babies, 2.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 63,456 babies, 2.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 51,920 babies, 1.65 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 25,706 babies, 1.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Hebrew יוֹאֵל (yo'él, “Yahweh (is) God”). As a medieval French and English given name, it is also from Breton Judicaël (related to Joyce and Jocelyn). Cf. Elijah.
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒoʊ(ə)l/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Joel, CC BY-SA 4.0.