girls:
56.2k births since 1912
#533 (91st percentile)
boys:
86 births since 1976
#4500 (2nd percentile)
overall:
56.3k births since 1912
#997 (87th percentile)
The name Janelle is the #997 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 56,255 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 87.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #533 (90.7% percentile) for all time with 56,169 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #4,500 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1976.
Janelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for girls and 1976 for boys).
The name Janelle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Janelle reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 76.6% percentile (ranked #185) with 822 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 842 births per million (ranked 76.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Janelle ranks #564 for girls (40.5% percentile) with 238 births per million, which is 28.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Janelle reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #749) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Janelle".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Janelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.1% confident that Janelle is pronounced as juh-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zhuh-NEHL, at 17.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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