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Joelly

Gender
Girl
Say it
JOH-lee
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Joelly is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “the Lord is God”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Joelly mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Joely; feminine form of Joel

“the Lord is God”

Joel is the name of an Old Testament prophet whose book is one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

Meaning borrowed from Joely.

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

Joelly is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Joelly in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Joelly, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2009, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.

Half of all the girls named Joelly in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 113 girls in the US were given Joelly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,559, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1996Busiest: 12 in 20092025
Joelly in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20240–
20236#13,456
20220–
20218#11,141
20205#15,083
20190–
20185#15,677
20176#14,120
20168#11,776
20159#10,861
20148#11,925
201310#10,230
201210#10,424
20116#14,816
20105#16,985
200912#9,375
200810#10,802
200711#10,125
200611#9,897
200511#9,447
20045#16,092
20035#15,777
20020–
20010–
20007#11,794
19990–
19985#14,116
19976#12,065
19967#10,562

Nicknames for Joelly

Names like Joelly

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

Other spellings of Joelly

Names related to Joelly

More Hebrew names

Every Hebrew name

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, “Joelly: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/joelly, updated 20 October 2026.