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Jannelle

Gender
Girl
Say it
ja-NEL
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Jannelle is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God is gracious”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Jannelle mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Janelle; modern elaboration of Jane

“God is gracious”

Meaning borrowed from Janelle. More on Wiktionary.

Is Jannelle a girl's or a boy's name?

Jannelle is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jannelle in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Jannelle, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 1981, with 44 girls. It first appears in the records in 1948.

Half of all the girls named Jannelle in the US since 1880 were born between 1978 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 373 girls in the US were given Jannelle or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #734, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.

1948Busiest: 44 in 19812025
Jannelle in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
20240–
202310#9,611
20220–
20219#10,287
20206#13,448
201913#8,134
20180–
201714#7,836
201617#6,898
201510#10,143
201414#8,050
201313#8,575
201216#7,452
201127#5,061
201019#6,638
200922#6,088
200818#7,069
200718#7,088
200625#5,382
200519#6,240
200413#8,254
20037#12,401
200211#8,831
200122#5,169
200019#5,700
199913#7,233
199825#4,363
199717#5,622
199625#4,179
199513#6,636
199434#3,297
199324#4,252
199223#4,375
199129#3,627
199038#2,952
198921#4,352
198833#3,034
198728#3,254
198614#5,185
198530#3,007
198430#2,914
198315#4,685
198221#3,779
198144#2,265
198031#2,866
197926#3,147
197831#2,680
197719#3,760
19765#9,282
197513#4,591
19749#5,775
197316#3,786
19728#5,957
197111#4,808
19709#5,412
19699#5,056
196811#4,221
196710#4,299
19660–
196517#3,049
19647#5,473
196310#4,271
19629#4,532
196112#3,792
196012#3,687
19597#5,030
19585#6,102
195710#3,929
19560–
195510#3,777
19547#4,653
195311#3,479
19520–
195110#3,481
195012#3,051
19490–
19485#5,241

Names like Jannelle

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Jannelle

Names related to Jannelle

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jannelle: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jannelle, updated 20 October 2026.