Joel
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#219
held its rank from 2024
2025 births
1,633
down −5 births
All-time births
279,655
1% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1985
- 4,623 births
- Best rank
- #65
- in 1981
- First recorded
- 1880
- #263 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1980
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19854,623#67Peak
- 19804,564#67
- 19814,540#65
- 19844,524#66
- 19864,507#72
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #65 in 1981 · peak births 4,623 in 1985
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
279,655 boys · 2,595 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Joel has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.