Jole
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jole has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 1956. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% girls, 9% boys all-time.
Babies named Jole, 2002
1 in 747,000
Jole over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Jole over time
In 2002, Jole went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Jole?
Jole had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 747,000
- 5 of 3,737,275 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jole sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jole. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Joles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jole was born before 1974 — so the typical Jole is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 50.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 28.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 53
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 50.9% of all recorded uses (27).
Is Jole rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1977 (7)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Jole
Jole is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 12.0% against Jole's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Jole around the world
Where Jole ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2004–2014#4,632in 2014
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Jole by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Jole
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jole
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.