Janelle is my name and I love it. I find it plain sometimes, but it is very unique and everyone tells me how beautiful it is. However, most Janelles I've met are very bratty.
I have mixed feelings about Janelle. Somtimes I really like it. I think it sounds trendy without being too trendy. Then again, somtimes I really hate it and think that it just sounds like Geletain or Jello.
-- Anonymous User 12/30/2006
I never used to particularly care for this name, but lately I find Janelle to be a subtly sophisticated and pretty name. I don't think it's trendy; I've never met a Janelle in my life.
-- Anonymous User 3/10/2008
It sounds like something lower middle class people choose for their daughter out of the desire to seem more glamorous and sophisticated than they are, and of couse they fail miserably, as the name is a bit... well, not flat ot trashy, but far from highly sophisticated. It's a rather unimaginative, lazily constructed name.
This is the name of one of the singers from Prima J Janelle aka J-Nelly.
-- Anonymous User 8/7/2008
My name is Janelle and I like it. It is very beautiful and I don't know people with the same name. But sometimes people pronounce it as Yanelle, Janella or Jinelle but on the whole it is an uncommon and beautiful name.
I have really liked this name for forever. I know as a young girl it was the name I'd given to one of my dolls. :) I've had three friends with this name - all of which are wonderful, sweet and genuine people! They each spelled it differently though. (Janel, Jeanelle, Janelle. One of them I called Nellie which she really liked. I think it's a cute nickname - who cares about the Loch Ness monster anyways! There was a character on Little House on the Prairie named Nellie.
Janelle Monae is a singer. Think Gnarls Barkely and Prince type stuff, but with lyrics about androids and really crazy-awesome female vocals. She always wears a tuxedo.