Joel (name)
Joel or Joël is a male given name of biblical origin, which also occurs as a family name . The first name comes from the Hebrew יוֹאֵל and means ' YHWH is God'. Jo stands for YHWH or 'the Lord', el is a divine title adopted from the Canaanite environment as an alias for YHWH in the Bible (see בֵּית אֵל Beth el 'House of El') and means 'God'. The first name is used in many Christian countries and pronounced differently accordingly. In German, Joel is stressed on the first syllable and pronounced as it is spelled, / joel /. The name day of Joel is 13 July .
variants
- Yoel
- The female form (French origin) is Joelle or Joëlle.
Biblical namesake
- Joel , son of Petuel, prophet and author of the biblical book of the same name
- Joel , firstborn son of the prophet Samuel ( 1 Chr 6,21 EU , 1 Sam 8,2 EU )
- a descendant of Rubens and father of Shemaya ( 1 Chr 5,4 EU )
- an officer of King David , brother of a Nathan ( 1 Chr 11.38 EU )
- Head of the family of the Levite Gershon at the time of David ( 1 Chr 15.7 EU ), probably identical with Joel the son of Ladan, the overseer of the temple treasures ( 1 Chr 26.21-22 EU )
- Joel the son of Pedaya , prince in Manasseh in the time of David ( 1 Chr 27.20 EU )
- a prince of the Gadites in Bashan in the time of Jotam and Jeroboam ( 1 Chr 5.12 EU )
- a prince in Simeon in the time of Hezekiah ( 1 Chr 4.35 EU )
- a Levite in the time of Hezekiah ( 2 Chr 29.12 EU )
- an Israelite who separated from a pagan woman ( Esr 10.43 EU )
- Joel, the son of Sichri, after the captivity ruler of the Benjaminites in Jerusalem ( Neh 11,9 EU )
Bearer of the first name
Form Joel, Joël
- Joel (Dotawo) , king of the Christian Nubian kingdom of Dotawo, who ruled around 1485
- Joël Abati (* 1970), French handball player
- Joel Agee (* 1940), American writer and translator
- Joel Anthony (* 1982), Canadian basketball player
- Joel Armia (* 1993), Finnish ice hockey player
- Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921), American zoologist and ornithologist
- Joel Barlow (1754–1812), American poet, statesman, and writer
- Joel Woolf Barnato (1895-1948), British racing car driver and financier, see Woolf Barnato
- Joel Barnett (1923-2014), British politician
- Joel Basman (* 1990), Swiss actor
- Joël Bats (* 1957), French football player
- Joel Beckett (born 1973), British actor
- Joel Benjamin (* 1964), American chess player
- Joel Berger (* 1937), Hungarian rabbi and university professor
- Joel Blahnik (* 1938), American composer and teacher
- Joel Blunier (* 1974), Swiss politician
- Joel Brand (1906–1964), Hungarian-German Zionist and association official
- Joel Brown (guitarist) , American classical guitarist
- Joel Brown (athlete) (born 1980), American athlete
- Joel Campbell (* 1992), Costa Rican soccer player
- Joel Casamayor (born 1971), Cuban boxer
- Joël Chenal (* 1973), French ski racer
- Joel Bennett Clark (1890–1954), American politician
- Joel Coen (* 1954), American film director, producer and screenwriter, see Ethan and Joel Coen
- Joël Corminbœuf (* 1964), Swiss football player
- Joël Dakouri (* 1989), Ivorian football player
- Joël Dicker (* 1985), francophone Swiss writer
- Joel Dion-Poitras (* 1987), Canadian cyclist
- Joel Dorius (1919–2006), American literary scholar and university professor
- Joel Dorn (1942–2007), American music producer and label founder
- Joel Dufter (* 1995), German speed skater
- Joel Edgerton (born 1974), Australian film actor
- Joël Eisenblätter (* 1997), German actor and voice actor
- Joel Ekstrand (* 1989), Swedish football player
- Joel El-Qalqili (* 1984), German rower
- Joel Embiid (* 1994), Cameroonian basketball player
- Joël Epalle (* 1978), Cameroonian football player
- Joel Eriksson (speed skater) (* 1984), Swedish speed skater
- Joel Eriksson (racing driver) (* 1998), Swedish automobile racing driver
- Joel Eriksson Ek (* 1997), Swedish ice hockey player
- Joel Fabiani (born 1936), American actor
- Joel Feinberg (1926-2004), American philosopher
- Joel Fisher (* 1947), American object artist, draftsman and sculptor
- Joel Frahm (* 1970), American saxophonist
- Joël Fröhlicher (* 1982), Swiss ice hockey player
- Joël Gaspoz (* 1962), Swiss ski racer
- Joel Gerezgiher (* 1995), German-Eritrean football player
- Joel Glazer (* 1970), American entrepreneur and sports official
- Joel Godard (* 1938), American presenter
- Joel Goldsmith (1957–2012), American composer
- Joël Emanuel Goudsmit (1813–1882), Dutch legal scholar
- Joel Gretsch (born 1963), American actor
- Joel Gray (born 1932), American actor
- Joel Griffiths (* 1979), Australian soccer player
- Joël Groff (* 1968), Luxembourg soccer player
- Joel Guzman (* 19 **), American musician
- Joel Emmanuel Hägglund , real name of Joe Hill (1879–1915), American labor leader, singer and songwriter
- Joel Hailey (* 1971), American musician
- Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908), American journalist and writer
- Joel Tyler Headley (1814-1897), American writer
- Joel Hefley (* 1935), American politician
- Joel Helleny (1956–2009), American jazz trombonist
- Joel Hirschhorn (1937–2005), American composer and songwriter
- Joel Houston (* 1979), Australian singer and songwriter
- Joel Isasi (* 1967), Cuban sprinter
- Joel Jacob (* 1992), Antiguan soccer player
- Joel Jones (born 1981), American basketball player
- Joël Keller (* 1995), Swiss football player
- Joel Keussen (* 1991), German ice hockey player
- Joel Kinnaman (* 1979), Swedish-American actor
- Joel Kwiatkowski (* 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
- Joel Lamela (* 1971), Cuban sprinter
- Joël Lautier (* 1973), French chess player
- Joel Lebowitz (* 1930), American physicist
- Joel Lindpere (* 1981), Estonian football player
- Joel Lundqvist (* 1982), Swedish ice hockey player
- Joel Lynch (* 1987), British football player
- Joël Mall (* 1991), Swiss football player
- Joel Mason (1912–1995) American football player and basketball coach
- Joel Matip (* 1991), German-Cameroonian football player
- Joel Matteson (1808–1873), American politician
- Joel McCrea (1905–1990), American actor
- Joel McNeely (* 1959), American film music composer
- Joël Mercier (* 1945), French clergyman, titular Archbishop of Rota
- Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866-1925), American astronomer
- Joel Meyerowitz (* 1938), American photographer
- Joel Milburn (* 1986), Australian athlete
- Joel Mogorosi (* 1984), Botswana football player
- Joel Monaghan (* 1982), Australian rugby league player
- Joel Mondo (* 1988), German basketball player
- Joel Moore (basketball player) (born 1964), British basketball player
- Joel David Moore (born 1977), American actor
- Joel Mull (* 1975), Swedish DJ and music producer
- Joel Murray (born 1963), American actor and director
- Joel Otto (* 1961), American ice hockey player
- Joel Pacas (* 1989), Canadian biathlete
- Joel Parker (1816–1888), American politician
- Joel Pearson (* 1983), Australian cyclist
- Joël Perrault (* 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
- Joel Perry (musician) (1953-2017), American jazz guitarist
- Joel Samuel Polack (1807–1882), British settler 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 ice hockey player
- Joel Przybilla (* 1979), American basketball player
- Joel Quenneville (* 1958), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Joël Quiniou (* 1950), French football referee
- Joel Rechlicz (* 1987), American ice hockey player
- Joel Rifkin (born 1959), American serial killer
- Joël Robert (* 1943), Belgian motorcycle racer
- Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), American physician, botanist, and politician
- Joël Robuchon (1945–2018), French chef and restaurateur
- Joel Rosenberg (1954-2011), Canadian writer
- Joël de Rosnay (* 1937), French biologist, computer scientist, writer and entrepreneur
- Joel Rubin (* 1955), American clarinetist and klezmer musician
- Joël Sami (* 1984), Congolese soccer player
- Joel Sang (* 1950), Estonian poet, writer, literary critic and publisher
- Joel Savage (* 1969), Canadian ice hockey player
- Joël Scherk (1946–1980), French physicist
- Joel Schumacher (1939–2020), American director, screenwriter and producer
- Joel Serkes (1561-1640), Jewish scholar and decisor
- Joel Shepherd (* 1974), Australian writer
- Joel Siegel (1943–2007), American film critic
- Joel Silver (* 1952), American film producer
- Joel Smoller (1936–2017), American mathematician
- Joel Soisson (* 1956), American film producer, director and screenwriter
- Joel Stebbins (1878–1966), American astronomer
- Joël Stein (1926–2012), French painter, printmaker and kinetic artist
- Joel Sternfeld (* 1944), American photographer
- Joel Stuehl (* 1982), German actor
- Joel Zusammenarbeit (* 1955), American producer and screenwriter
- Joel Sweeney (1810-1860), American musician
- Joel Sánchez (athlete) (born 1966), Mexican walker
- Joel Sánchez (soccer player) (* 1989), Peruvian soccer player
- Joel Sánchez Ramos (* 1974), Mexican football player
- Joël Tchami (* 1982), Cameroonian football player
- Joel Tenenbaum (* 1983), American student and defendant for file sharing
- Joel Ward (ice hockey player) (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player
- Joel Weiskopf (* 1962), American pianist, composer and band leader
- Joel Weisman (1943–2009), American doctor and AIDS researcher
- Joel West (* 1975), American actor and model
- Joel-Peter Witkin (* 1939), American photographer
- Joel Thomas Zimmerman , actual name of deadmau5 (* 1981), Canadian music producer
Form yoel
- Yoel Gamzou (* 1988), Israeli-American conductor
- Yoel Hernández (* 1977), Cuban hurdler
- Yoel Levi (* 1950), Israeli musician and conductor
- Yoel Mariño (* 1975), Cuban road cyclist
- Yoel Rak (* 1946), Israeli anatomist and paleoanthropologist
Bearer of the family name
- Alexander Joel (* 1971), British pianist and conductor
- Amos E. Joel (1918–2008), American electrical engineer
- Anselm Otto Joel (1898–1961), German local politician
- Antje Joel (* 1966), German journalist
- Aviva Joel (born 1949), Israeli actress
- Billy Joel (born 1949), American singer and pianist
- Charlotte Joël (1882 or 1887–1943), German photographer
- Curt Joël (1865–1945), German lawyer, civil servant and politician
- Diederrick Joel (* 1993), Cameroonian football player
- Ernst Joël (1893–1929), German doctor
- Eugen Joel (1863–1911), German doctor and health resort director
- Franziskus Joel (1508–1579), German pharmacologist and physician
- Georg Joel (1898–1981), German politician (NSDAP, DRP)
- Günther Joël (Ministerialbeamter) (1899–1986), German lawyer and Ministerialbeamter
- Günther Joël (1903–1978), German Nazi lawyer in the Reich Ministry of Justice
- Johann Friedrich Joel (1792–1852), legendary landlord of the Gasthof Schmücke am Rennsteig and humorist
- Karl Joël (philosopher) (1864–1934), German philosopher
- Karl Amson Joel (1889–1982), German textile merchant and manufacturer
- Louis Joël (1823-1892), Swiss politician
- Manuel Joël (1826–1890), German scholar and rabbi
- Otto Joel (1856–1916), Italian banker
- William Joel , American computer scientist, composer and poet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pronunciation. In: de.forvo.com. Retrieved February 8, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Rosa and Volker Kohlheim: Duden. Lexicon of first names. Mannheim: Duden 1998, p. 144.
- ^ Emil Dönges: Small name concordance . Dillenburg: CV 1994, p. 28.