Janelle

What Janelle means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Janelle yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1979, with 1,416 babies; 340 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Janelle?

US: Falling: down from #470 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1057 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1978, when 1,384 girls got the name (#186 that year). First in the US records in 1912.

How common

• About 1 in 4,727 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,221 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MA (0.54 per 1,000 girls), NV (0.54 per 1,000 girls), NJ (0.48 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Janelle is #799 in the US and #642 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Janelle were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jenelle19 US · 7 E&W
• Janell18 US
• Jonelle9 US
• Janel8 US
• Jannelle7 US
• Ginelle6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Janel

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Janelle

Girls

• Molly#196Editor’s note Down from #144 in 2015 to #196 in 2025 in the US
• Ariel#355“lion of God”^*
• Simone#995Feminine form of Simon, meaning “sixpence coin”^*
• Julie#872Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1958, with 18,215 babies; 308 in 2025
• Michelle#465Feminine form of Michel, meaning “who is like God?”^*
• Stephanie#557Feminine form of Stephen, meaning “crown, wreath”^*

For a brother

• Joel#219Editor’s note Down from #158 in 2015 to #219 in 2025 in the US
• Aaron#80Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 15,308 babies; 4,041 in 2025
• Jeremy#292Form of Jeremiah, meaning “Yahweh exalt”^*
• David#35“beloved”^*
• Andre#368Form of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• Daniel#22“God is my judge”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Janelle’s. Rank is US 2025.