Entry № 4986 · English origin

Jonelle Jonelle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ joh-NELL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"God is gracious (Jonelle Allen, Tony-nominated actress)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "god is gracious (jonelle allen, tony-nominated actress)".

Jonelle is a 20th-century American name — a feminine elaboration of John (Hebrew Yochanan, "God is gracious") with the French -elle suffix. Julia Heller on CBS's Dr. Jonelle Anderson — American athlete. Jonelle also appears as a popular variant alongside Jonnelle and Janelle; the name exemplifies the mid-century American tradition of creating feminine forms from popular masculine names (John → Jonelle, like Daniel → Danielle, Paul → Paulette). Jonelle Anderson — entrepreneur.

God is gracious.

The name in its native script.

Jonelle
Transliteration
Jonelle
Pronunciation
/ dʒoʊˈnɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jonelle stands.

Jonelle does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jonelles before her.

Real people
Jonelle Allen
American Tony-nominated actress.
born 1944
Jonelle Procope
Former CEO of the Apollo Theater.
born 1951
In fiction
Jonelle
Various American theatre.

Names connected to Jonelle.

The number behind Jonelle.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jonelle reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.