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Joleen

#5,810 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Jolene

Joleen has been given to 6,670 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #5,810 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 187 recorded.

Babies named Joleen, 2025

1 in 158,000

Joleen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joleen: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jolene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joleen means

Joleen is a variant of Jolene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jolene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,670 girls were recorded with the name Joleen between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 187 in 1974; its best national rank was #754 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,688 in 2020 to #5,810 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,102 in 2015 to #5,810 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Joleen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,810
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joleen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Joleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joleen was born before 1974 — so the typical Joleen is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,954
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Choose a decade

1970s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (1,302).

Is Joleen 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
+1,587
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,122
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,708
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.58×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.2%
Peak was 1974 (187)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#754
1974

Spellings of Joleen

Joleen is not the most common spelling — Eileen is, with 30.5% against Joleen's 1.1%.

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.

Where Joleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Joleen was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 33,274 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

022 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 4,545
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 6,667
  3. 3Kansas1 in 10,000
  4. 4North Dakota1 in 12,500
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 12,500
  6. 6Washington1 in 12,500
  7. 7California1 in 16,667
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Joleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Joleen around the world

Where Joleen 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 & Wales
    1997–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1979–1988
    #577
    in 1988
  • Ireland
    1978–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • France
    2012–2025
    #5,192
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,318
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1974–1983
    #351
    in 1983

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Joleen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Joleen. Linked forms have their own page here.

Jolene

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Joleen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,810
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,122
Best rank ever
#754
1974
Peak year
1974
187 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,670
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Joleen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Joleen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Joleen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GinnyNickiAndraLesleeCharlaTanaRoniLanitaSaritaLianeZandraJoanie

Sibling names for Joleen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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