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Jolie

#1,030 in 2025Girls' name

Dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind, through joli

Jolie has been given to 14,099 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #1,030 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 546 recorded.

Babies named Jolie, 2025

1 in 13,600

Jolie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jolie: meaning, origin, and history

Dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind, through joli

French

What Jolie means

Jolie belongs to the name family reached through Jolie → joli. Its meaning is “dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jolie is used in English. Its origins include French.

Jolie comes through French joli.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include joli.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,099 girls were recorded with the name Jolie between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 546 in 2008; its best national rank was #564 in 2008.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #716 in 2020 to #1,030 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #753 in 2015 to #1,030 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jolie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,600
243 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,610
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,030
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,458 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jolie 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,458 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jolie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jolies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jolie was born before 2007 — so the typical Jolie is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,077
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2000s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (4,324).

Is Jolie 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
−128
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−314
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−277
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.5%
Peak was 2008 (546)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
6.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#564
2008

Spellings of Jolie

Jolie is not the most common spelling — Julie is, with 16.8% against Jolie's 0.46%.

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 Jolie is used

Across 2016–2025, Jolie was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 617 girls, against 1 in 4,079 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 11,111).

9162 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 617
  2. 2New York1 in 2,778
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 2,778
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 3,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 3,704
  6. 6Kansas1 in 3,704
  7. 7Florida1 in 3,846
  8. 8California1 in 4,000

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.

Geographically, Jolie is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 96% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Jolie around the world

Where Jolie 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
    1996–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2003–2003
    #331
    in 2003
  • Ireland
    2005–2006
    #502
    in 2006
  • France
    2011–2025
    #5,276
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1967–2010
    #521
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Notable people named Jolie

People whose public names include Jolie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jolie in other languages

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

JoliJulyJoliaJolinJulieJolienJoliette

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

Jolie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,030
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 314
Best rank ever
#564
2008
Peak year
2008
546 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,099
Count in 2025
243

Names similar to Jolie

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

JoleeJoleenJoleneRylieJolynnHalieJolynCarlieKallieTillieKarlieKalieHollieDollieHaylieOllieAshlieAmelieKaylieAllieEmilieHailieArlieHallie

Names with a curve like Jolie

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

LibertyRaynaKennaAnikaAlenaRainaGiovannaLaneyMelanyMelinaBelenAliza

Sibling names for Jolie

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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