Joel
240
Babies in 2024
-58%
10-year change
2005
Peak · 978
-22%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Joel
Joel peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (978 babies in 2005) and has remained in active use — 240 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Joel reached its peak in 2005, when 978 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #69 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 240 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 19,004 boys have been officially registered with the name Joel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 4,421 boys were registered with the name, starting from 570 in 2014 and ending at 240 in 2024.