Joëlle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, female equivalent of Joël
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Joëlle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.1K
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 377 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joelle in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 2 more and Joèlle in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, female equivalent of Joël
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Joëlle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #227 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 94K | Joelle | 334 |
| US United States | — | 14,728 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Joelle | 377 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 2 | Joèlle | 21 |
| CM Cameroon | #178 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Joelle | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | #707 | 5,347 | 1 in 3.2K | 5.3K | Joëlle | 62 |
| BE Belgium | #281 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 13 | Joelle | 100 |
| LB Lebanon | #679 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Joelle | 50 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joëlle Bernardb. 1928FRFrench actress (1928-1977)
- Joëlle Hacheb. 1950FRFrench film editor
- Joëlle Ceccaldi-Raynaudb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Joëlle Sevillab. 1953FRFrench actress
- Joëlle Guiguib. 1956FRFrench actress
- Joëlle Ursullb. 1960FRFrench singer
- Joëlle Milquetb. 1961BEBelgian federal Minister of the Interior
- Joëlle Alexisb. 1970BEfilm editor
- Katsunib. 1979FRnot in their usual nameFrench pornographic actress
- Joelle Numainvilleb. 1987CACanadian racing cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2018 | 94K | #2,913 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5.3K | #386 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 69 | #193 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 30 | #9,133 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 13 | #640 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 8 | #32,545 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #348 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Joëlle mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, female equivalent of Joël Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Joëlle a male or female name?
- Joëlle is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Joëlle?
- In the etymology graph, Joella is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Joëlle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Joëlle in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joelle.
- How common is the name Joëlle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,728 people named Joëlle in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Joëlle compared with other names?
- In France, Joëlle is the 227th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Joëlle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jo%C3%ABlleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Joëlle” — the 227th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.