Janell
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 36 babies a year in the US.
Janell by the numbers
Janell was given to 36 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 416 babies in 1979, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Janell
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Janell. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Janellegod is gracious; feminine form of Jan or John617 in the US (2017)
- Janelygod is gracious; a modern respelling of Janet or Janey54 in the US (2017)
- Janelgod is gracious; form of jane32 in the US (2017)
- Janellagod is gracious; a form of Janelle or Jane4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Jannellgod is gracious; a form of Janet or Jeannette5 in the US (2017)
- Janelly71 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Janell
Names that are said the same way as Janell, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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