Janelle

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Janelle: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Janelle: Recorded since 1954, it reached #50 in 1960, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
59times a registrar ranked it
72years from first to last
#50highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#1176
1998	#2165
1999	#1805
2000	#1475
2001	#936
2002	#1245
2003	#1383
2004	#1209
2005	#951
2006	#1435
2007	#1050
2008	#899
2009	#1105
2010	#840
2011	#1269
2012	#1037
2013	#839
2014	#1234
2015	#1057
2016	#1013
2017	#1144
2018	#1272
2019	#1218
2020	#1618
2021	#1224
2022	#940
2023	#981
2024	#686

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 8 of the 47 years from 1979 to 2025.

In 2012: #907 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1037 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1954–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1954
First recorded at #78 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1954 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1954–1976
Highest recorded position: #50 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1960 (recorded 1954–1976).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Janelle appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 757 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1954.

Janelle across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Janelle's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#523 (1979)	#503 (1989)	#885 (2025)	8 of 47	24 (1979–2025)	3 (1979)
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#686 (2024)	#686 (2024)	29 of 29	757 (1996–2024)	55 (2024)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#78 (1954)	#50 (1960)	#81 (1976)	22 of 23	3,134 (1954–1976)	198 (1960)

Janelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Janelle in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	39	4 of 10	10
2000s	222	10 of 10	22
2010s	324	10 of 10	32
2020sbusiest	172	5 of 10	34

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 34 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Janelle appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1954 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #50 in New South Wales, Australia in 1966.

Janelle's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#686	55	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#981	35	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#940	37	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1224	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1618	18	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1218	27	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1234	27	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#839	45	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1037	34	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1269	25	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#840	42	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1105	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#899	36	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1050	28	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#951	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1209	19	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1383	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#936	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2165	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1176	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
1976	New South Wales, Australia	female	#81	89	Insufficient	Not yet available
1974	New South Wales, Australia	female	#90	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
1973	New South Wales, Australia	female	#79	98	Insufficient	Not yet available
1972	New South Wales, Australia	female	#68	132	Insufficient	Not yet available
1971	New South Wales, Australia	female	#69	143	Insufficient	Not yet available
1970	New South Wales, Australia	female	#80	115	Insufficient	Not yet available
1969	New South Wales, Australia	female	#68	145	Insufficient	Not yet available
1968	New South Wales, Australia	female	#63	139	Insufficient	Not yet available
1967	New South Wales, Australia	female	#67	133	Insufficient	Not yet available
1966	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	173	Insufficient	Not yet available
1965	New South Wales, Australia	female	#53	167	Insufficient	Not yet available
1964	New South Wales, Australia	female	#53	174	Insufficient	Not yet available
1963	New South Wales, Australia	female	#54	183	Insufficient	Not yet available
1962	New South Wales, Australia	female	#57	174	Insufficient	Not yet available
1961	New South Wales, Australia	female	#57	177	Insufficient	Not yet available
1960	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	198	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	female	#55	162	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	148	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	female	#60	152	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	female	#65	136	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	female	#79	104	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#78	102	Insufficient	Not yet available
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1954 and 2025, ranked in 56 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #50, first reached in 1960.

It held a top-100 place in 22 years, 21 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 198 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1960.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1979, and 42 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Janet · #19, 76y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aoibheann · #50, 54y
Celina · #51, 57y
Cliodhna · #52, 56y
Eugene · #47, 61y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Ørjan · #50, 69y
Piotr · #50, 71y
Sheryl · #50, 33y
Sonia · #50, 64y

Janelle was ranked #50 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1960. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Janelle and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Janelle without appearing here.

Janelle moved ahead of

Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1176 and #3824.
Therese Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2165 and #2165 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1805 and #3900.
Evan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1176 and #3174.
Lynette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1176 and #3174.

Moved ahead of Janelle

Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1245 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1383 and #799.
Ida Compare
In 2010 they stood at #840 and #878 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1269 and #749.
Beau Compare
In 2001 they stood at #936 and #1107 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1245 and #809.
Harper Compare
In 2010 they stood at #840 and #930 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1269 and #858.

Moved the opposite way to Janelle

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Janelle went from #2096 to #686 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Janelle went from #2096 to #686 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Janelle went from #2096 to #686 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Janelle went from #2096 to #686 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Janelle

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Janelle went from #2096 to #686 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Janelle went from #2096 to #686 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Janelle went from #2096 to #686 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Janelle went from #2096 to #686 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1954 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #50 in New South Wales, Australia in 1966. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Janelle

Janelle at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Janelle across 3 official records

Janelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Janelle appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Janelle

Janelle and the names beside it

Janelle moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Janelle

Moved the opposite way to Janelle

Moved the same way as Janelle

Janelle at a glance

Janelle across 3 official records

Janelle by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Janelle appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Janelle

Janelle and the names beside it

Janelle moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Janelle

Moved the opposite way to Janelle

Moved the same way as Janelle