Jo-El
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Jo-El is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Biblical Hebrew יוֹאֵל (yoél).
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 250(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 463
- FIFinland1 in 475
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jo-El itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #244 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 600 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 253 (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Joel in US United States, PH Philippines, MX Mexico and 6 more.
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)From Biblical Hebrew יוֹאֵל (yoél).
Cited for this meaning 11
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jo-El 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #12 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 253 | — | Joel | 173 |
| US United States | #212 | 256,017 | 1 in 1.3K | 254K | Joel | 600 |
| MX Mexico | #128 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 613 | 1.2K | Joel | 226 |
| BR Brazil | #167 | 129,772 | 1 in 1.6K | 144K | Joel | 189 |
| NG Nigeria | #233 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Joel | 109 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 30,633 | 1 in 552 | 31K | Joel | 66 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #17 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 483 | — | Joel | 89 |
| SE Sweden | #179 | 22,041 | 1 in 463 | 22K | Joel | 124 |
| FI Finland | #840 | 11,721 | 1 in 475 | 14K | Joel | 73 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jo-El mean, and where does it come from?
- From Biblical Hebrew יוֹאֵל (yoél). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 9 other sources.
- Is Jo-El a male or female name?
- Jo-El is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Jo-El have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 458 thousand people named Jo-El in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joel.
- How common is the name Jo-El?
- In the United States, the national register counted 256,017 people named Jo-El in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Jo-El compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jo-El is the 12th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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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-elThe 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, “Jo-El” — the 12th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.