MEANING & HISTORY
What does Janelle mean?
Janelle is formed from Jane with the ending -elle. Jane belongs to the feminine John family, whose Hebrew background concerns divine grace.
The ending creates a recognizable personal-name form; it is not another Hebrew word with an additional meaning. The dictionary directly documents the Jane construction, and the historical source confirms the older John root. Janelle and Janette share a broad family without one being a spelling error for the other.
The source chain explains the name, not an individual naming intention.
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
Hebrew
Dictionary accounts by language
English
From Jane + -elle, q.v. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
A female given name.
Wiktionary: Janelle (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
People with the name Janelle
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Janelle Quintana
Filipino actress
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Janelle Jamer
Filipina TV host, singer, actress, and comedian
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Similar names to Janelle
Explore names with a similar opening or ending.
Names in this collection
- Jamelle♂♀Often associated in secondary name guides with: A proposed form in the Jamal name family
- Janella♀Variant of Janelle, a diminutive of Jane
- Jannelle♀Often associated in secondary name guides with: A Jane-family spelling related to Janelle
- Jonelle♀God is gracious; feminine form of John
- Danielle♀French feminine form of Daniel
- Hazelle♀A spelling of Hazel, the tree-name
- Janette♀God is gracious; variant of Janet
- Jobelle♀Jo plus Belle
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- Wikidata
- 2 person records with this given name · Q6153045 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
Follow the sources
- Wikidata given-name item Q6153045 — Janelle (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata — Janelle Jamer (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata — Janelle Quintana (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Janelle (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name — jane (opens in a new tab)
- Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources — John (opens in a new tab)