Joel (given name)

Joel and Joel is a male first name that occurs as a family name. Since it is a name from the Bible, it is used as a first name in many Christian countries and pronounced accordingly different. In German, Joel is stressed on the first syllable and pronounced as to write him / joel /.

The Female Form (French origin) is Joelle and Joëlle.

Origin and Meaning

Joel comes from the Aramaic and Hebrew and means " Yahweh is God. ". " Jo " stands for "Yahweh" or "the Lord", "el" is the name of the supreme Canaanite God (see Beth el = House of El) and also means "Lord" or "God."

Name-day

The Name day of Joel is the 13th of July.

Well-known bearers of the name

First name

• Joel ( Dotawo ), King of the Christian Nubian kingdom of Dotawo, who reigned about 1485
• Joël Abati (born 1970 ), French handball national team
• Joel Agee ( born 1949 ), American writer and translator
• Joel Anthony ( b. 1982 ), Canadian basketball player
• Joel Asaph Allen (1838-1921), American zoologist and ornithologist
• Joel Barlow (1754-1812), American poet, statesman and political writer
• Joel Woolf Barnato (1895-1948), British racing driver and financier
• Joel Barnett ( b. 1923 ), British politician
• Joel Basman (* 1990), Swiss actor
• Joël Bats ( born 1957 ), French footballer
• Joel Beckett (born 1973 ), British actor
• Joel Benjamin (born 1964 ), American chess master
• Joel Berger ( born 1937 ), Hungarian rabbi retired the rabbinate Württemberg and lecturer at the University of Tübingen
• Joel Blahnik ( born 1938 ), American composer and teacher
• Joel Blunier ( b. 1974 ), Swiss politician
• Joel Brand (1906-1964), Hungarian - German Zionist Federation official
• Joel Brown ( born 1980 ), American track and field athlete
• Joel Casamayor (* 1971), Cuban professional boxer
• Joël Chenal (born 1973 ), French skier
• Joel Bennett Clark (1890-1954), American politician
• Joel Coen ( b. 1954 ), American film director, producer and screenwriter
• Joël Corminbœuf (born 1964 ), Swiss football player
• Joël Dakouri (* 1989), Ivorian footballer
• Joel Dion - Poitras (* 1987), Canadian cyclo-cross and road racing cyclist
• Joel Dorius (1919-2006), American professor of literature
• Joel Dorn (1942-2007), American jazz and R & B music producer and record label founder
• Joel Edgerton ( born 1974 ), Australian film actor
• Joël iron sheets (* 1997), German child actor and voice actor
• Joel Ekstrand (* 1989), Swedish football player
• Joel El- Qalqili (* 1984), German rower
• Joël Epalle (born 1978 ), Cameroonian football player
• Joel Eriksson ( born 1984 ), Swedish speed skater
• Joel Fabiani ( b. 1936 ), American actor
• Joel Feinberg (1926-2004), American philosopher
• Joel Fisher ( born 1947 ), American object artist, illustrator and sculptor
• Joel Frahm (born 1970 ), American jazz tenor saxophonist
• Joël Merry ( b. 1982 ), Swiss ice hockey player
• Joël Gaspoz (born 1962 ), Swiss skier
• Joel Glazer (born 1970 ), American entrepreneur and CEO of Manchester United
• Joel Godard ( born 1938 ), American moderator
• Joel Goldsmith (1957-2012), American composer
• Joel Gretsch ( born 1963 ), American actor
• Joel Grey ( b. 1932 ), American actor
• Joel Griffiths ( born 1979 ), Australian football player
• Joel Guzman ( * 19 **), American musician
• Joel Emmanuel Hägglund (1879-1915), as Joe Hill famous American labor leaders, union activist, singer and songwriter
• Joel Hailey (born 1971 ), American musician
• Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), American journalist and writer
• Joel Tyler Headley (1814-1897), American writer
• Joel Hefley ( born 1935 ), American politician
• Joel Hirschhorn (1937-2005), American composer and songwriter
• Joel Houston ( b. 1979 ), Australian singer and songwriter
• Joel Isasi (* 1967), Cuban sprinter
• Joel Jones ( born 1981 ), American basketball player
• Joel Keussen (* 1991), German ice hockey player
• Joel Kwiatkowski ( born 1977 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Joel Lamela (born 1971 ), Cuban sprinter
• Joël Lautier (born 1973 ), French chess master
• Joel Lebowitz ( born 1930 ), American physicist
• Joel Lindpere ( born 1981 ), Estonian footballer
• Joel Lundqvist ( b. 1982 ), Swedish ice hockey player
• Joel Lynch ( * 1987), British football player
• Joel Madden ( born 1979 ), American musician
• Joel Mall ( * 1991), Swiss football player
• Joel Mason (1912-1995), U.S. American football player, basketball coach
• Joel Matip (* 1991), German - Cameroonian footballer
• Joel Matteson (1808-1873), American politician and 10th Governor of Illinois
• Joel McCrea (1905-1990), American actor
• Joel McNeely ( born 1959 ), American film music composer
• Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866-1925), American astronomer
• Joel Meyerowitz ( b. 1938 ), American photographer
• Joel Milburn ( born 1986 ), Australian athlete
• Joel Mogorosi ( born 1984 ), football player botswanischer
• Joel Mondo (* 1988), German basketball player
• Joel Moore ( born 1977 ), American actor
• Joel Murray ( born 1963 ), American actor and director
• Joel Otto ( born 1961 ), American ice hockey player
• Joel Pacas (* 1989), Canadian biathlete
• Joel Parker (1816-1888), American politician
• Joel Pearson ( b. 1983 ), Australian road racing cyclist
• Joel Samuel Polack (1807-1882), the first Jewish settlers in New Zealand
• Joel Pohjanpalo (* 1994), Finnish football player
• Joel Polis ( born 1951 ), American actor
• Joel Pritchard (1925-1997), American politician
• Joel Prpic (* 1974 ) Croatian- Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Joel Przybilla ( born 1979 ), American basketball player
• Joel Quenneville (born 1958 ), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• Joël Quiniou ( born 1950 ), French football referee
• Joel Rechlicz (* 1987), American ice hockey player
• Joel Rifkin ( b. 1959 ), American serial killer
• Joël Robert ( born 1943 ), Belgian motocross racer
• Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851), American physician, botanist and politician
• Joël Robuchon ( born 1945 ), French chef and restaurateur
• Joel Rosenberg (1954-2011), Canadian writer
• Joël de Rosnay ( born 1937 ), French biologist, computer scientist, writer and entrepreneur
• Joel Rubin ( b. 1955 ), American clarinetist and klezmer musicians
• Joël Sami ( born 1984 ), the Congolese football player
• Joel Sang ( born 1950 ), Estonian poet, writer, literary critic and publisher
• Joel Savage (born 1969 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Joël Scherk (1946-1980), a French theoretical physicist
• Joel Schumacher ( born 1939 ), American film director, screenwriter and producer
• Joel Serkes (1561-1640), Jewish scholar and Dezisor
• Joel Shepherd ( b. 1974 ), Australian writer
• Joel Siegel (1943-2007), American film critic
• Joel Silver ( born 1952 ), American film producer
• Joel Smoller ( born 1935 ), American mathematician
• Joel Soisson, film producer, director and screenwriter
• Joel Stebbins (1878-1966), American astronomer
• Joël Stein (1926-2012), French painter, graphic artist and kinetic
• Joel Sternfeld (* 1944), American photographer
• Joel Stühl (* 1982 ), German actor
• Joel Surnow ( born 1955 ), American producer and writer of television series
• Joel Sweeney (1810-1860), American musician
• Joel Sánchez ( athlete ) (born 1966 ), Mexican -goers
• Joel Sánchez Ramos ( born 1974 ), Mexican football player
• Joël Tchami (* 1982 ), Cameroonian football player
• Joel Tenenbaum ( b. 1983 ), American student and defendant in a trial for file sharings
• Joel Ward ( born 1980 ), Canadian ice hockey player
• Joel Weiskopf (born 1962 ), American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
• Joel Weisman (1943-2009), American physician in internal medicine and AIDS researcher
• Joel West ( born 1975 ), American film and stage actor and photo model
• Joel -Peter Witkin ( b. 1939 ), American photographer
• Joel Thomas Zimmerman ( born 1981 ), Canadian music producer, known by his stage name deadmau5

Family name

• Alexander Joel (born 1971 ), British pianist and conductor
• Amos E. Joel (1918-2008), American electrical engineer
• Antje Joel (born 1966 ), German journalist
• Aviva Joel ( b. 1949 ), Israeli actress
• Billy Joel ( b. 1949 ), American singer and pianist
• Curt Joël (1865-1945), German jurist, civil servant and politician
• Joel Francis (1508-1579), German pharmacologist and physician
• Georg Joel (1898-1981), German politician ( NSDAP DRP)
• Günther Joel ( ministry officials ) ( 1899-1986 ), German jurist and ministry officials
• Günther Joël (1903-1978), German Nazi lawyer in the Reich Ministry of Justice
• Johann Friedrich Joel (1792-1852), the legendary host of the inn Decorate am Rennsteig and humorist
• Karl Joel (philosopher ) ( 1864-1934 ), German philosopher
• Karl Amson Joel (1889-1982), German textile merchant and fabrikant
• Louis Joël (1823-1892), Swiss politician
• Manuel Joël (1826-1890), German scholar and rabbi
• Joel Otto (1856-1916), an Italian banker
• William Joel, American computer scientist, composer and lyricist

Biblical people

• Joel, son Petuels, prophet and author of the biblical book of the same name Joel

There are also other people of this name in the Bible, but only once mentioned:

• An ancestor of the prophet Samuel ( 1Chr. 6.21 )
• A descendant of Reuben and father of Shemaya ( 1Chr. 5.4 )
• An officer of King David, brother of Nathan ( 1Chr. 11.38 )
• Head of the family of the Levites in the days of David Gershon ( 1Chr. 15.7 ), probably identical with Joel the son of Ladan, the overseer of the temple treasures ( 1Chr. 26,21 f)
• Joel the son Pedayas, Prince Manasseh in the time of David ( 1Chr. 27,20 )
• A prince of the Gadites in Bashan at the time of Jotham and Jeroboam ( 1Chr. 5.12 )
• A prince Simeon in the days of Hezekiah ( 1 Chr 4:35)
• A Levite the days of Hezekiah ( 2Chr. 29.12 )
• An Israelite, who parted with a Gentile woman (Ezra 10:43)
• Joel, the son Zechri, after the captivity head of Benjamin in Jerusalem ( Neh. 11:9)