How popular is the name Janel?

Janel ranks 1,272nd among girls' names in US records, with 12,047 births since 1933. Over the past decade it accounts for 246.

Is Janel a unisex name?

No. Janel is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1971, when 424 children were given the name. It has been in use for 92 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,272 of girl names

Pronounced JH AE1 N AH0 L (ARPABET)

Janel is a girls' name, and first appears in 1933. It has been given to 12,047 children — the 1,272nd most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 246 births across the past decade, against a peak of 424 in a single year. That peak was in 1971.

1971Girls: 424Boys: 5

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Janel?: Janel ranks 1,272nd among girls' names in US records, with 12,047 births since 1933. Over the past decade it accounts for 246.
Is Janel a unisex name?: No. Janel is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Janel most popular?: 1971, when 424 children were given the name. It has been in use for 92 years and is still recorded as of 2024.