Joël

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Primarily a boy's name · 98% boys

Origin: French

Meaning

Joel or Yoel is a male name derived from יוֹאֵל Standard Hebrew, Yoʾel, Tiberian Hebrew, or Yôʾēl, meaning "Yahu is god", "YHWH is God", or the modern translation "Yahweh is God". Joel as a given name appears in the Hebrew Bible.

From Wikipedia

Joël first appears in the data in 1959 and has been recorded in 56 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2003 with 180 babies (rank #116 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Joël

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Joël yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

4,331
Total babies (all years)
56
Years in the data
180
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19593#757
19603#772
19614#740
19623#797
19633#801
19643#810
19659#599
19665#736
19676#690
19688#644
196914#524
19706#754
19719#675
19729#654
197310#612
197419#446
197522#404
197628#362
197728#363
197830#349
197940#296
198045#290
198156#260
198245#291
198348#277
198452#265
198552#271
198674#214
198784#200
198883#200
198988#197
199089#199
1991110#173
1992118#170
1993126#159
1994142#143
1995171#122
1996148#134
1997152#129
1998138#156
1999166#129
2000154#140
2001146#146
2002163#127
2003180#116
2004121#155
2005124#147
2006118#146
2007114#149
2008132#126
2009112#147
2010115#135
2011136#113
2012115#128
2013110#127
2014169#97