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Joletta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Joletta has been given to 227 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1958, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Joletta, 1985

1 in 714,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Joletta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Joletta means

Joletta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Joletta is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 227 girls were recorded with the name Joletta between 1946 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1958; its best national rank was #3,016 in 1958.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Joletta?

Joletta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1985, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1985
1 in 714,000
5 of 3,568,740 births
Among girls only
1 in 344,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1985
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
494,734 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Joletta 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 1985 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 494,734 children born in 1985 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joletta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jolettas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Joletta was born before 1961 — so the typical Joletta is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
205
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Joletta 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (16)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
55.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,016
1958

Spellings of Joletta

Joletta is not the most common spelling — Loretta is, with 60.0% against Joletta's 0.08%.

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.

Joletta around the world

Where Joletta 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.

  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Joletta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,016
1958
Peak year
1958
16 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
227
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Joletta

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

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Sibling names for Joletta

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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