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Joellen

The girl's name Joellen has been in the national records since 1922, with 5,399 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 14,942nd. About 4,200 Joellens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Joellen

By the numbers

Total US births
5,399
Estimated living today
4,200
Median age today
62
Peak year
1960
Best rank
796th
Rank in 2025
14,942nd
First recorded
1922

How old the living Joellens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 5,399 babies given the name since 1922, about 4,200 are alive — 78 in every hundred. Roughly 110 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Joellen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Joellen is most concentrated in Iowa (4.0×), Indiana (3.9×), Ohio (3.0×), Wisconsin (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1960

The most popular girls’ names the year Joellen peaked:

All the names of 1960

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.