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Joellen vs Joesiah

American parents have registered 5,399 Joellens since 1880, against 644 Joesiahs. But in 2025 it was Joesiah that was commoner, 19 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Joellen against Joesiah, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Joellen Joesiah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Joellen for 79 years and Joesiah for 24 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Joellen Joesiah
Total US births 5,399644
Most in one year 16741
Babies in 2025 519
Estimated living today 4,200640
Median age today 6211
Peak year 19602012
Best rank 796th girls2,869th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd5,045th
First recorded 19222000
Girls / boys 5,399 / 00 / 644

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Joellens alive today are over 62; half the Joesiahs are over 11. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Joellen and Joesiah.