Meaning not yet researched.
Joleen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #754 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #754 in 1974; #5,811 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Joleen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,811 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #754.
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Joleen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #754 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 187 (1974).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Joleen, making it the 5,811th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,590 places from #7,401 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 15 girls named Joleen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #754, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 187. For comparison, it was #4,103 in 2015 and #1,011 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Joleen in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 6,670 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,302 babies named Joleen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 293 US girls were named Joleen; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jolene (36,236 babies since 1880), Julien (14,032 babies since 1880), Joellen (5,399 babies since 1880) and Jolynn (4,620 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joeleen, Jolleen and Joyleen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Joeleen (211), Jolleen (137), Joyleen (33), Jolyon (31).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Joleen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,811 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,401 | — | — |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,926 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,281 | — | — |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,690 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,240 | — | — |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,103 | — | — |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,771 | — | — |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,488 | — | — |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,904 | — | — |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,648 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,417 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,112 | — | — |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,449 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,922 | — | — |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1984 | 97 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1983 | 127 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1982 | 135 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1981 | 131 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1980 | 145 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1979 | 116 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1978 | 136 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1977 | 182 | #825 | — | — |
| 1976 | 173 | #804 | — | — |
| 1975 | 161 | #837 | — | — |
| 1974 | 187 | #754 | — | — |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1972 | 62 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1971 | 89 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1970 | 120 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 1968 | 91 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1967 | 88 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1966 | 105 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1965 | 102 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1963 | 111 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1962 | 134 | #915 | — | — |
| 1961 | 132 | #940 | — | — |
| 1960 | 124 | #961 | — | — |
| 1959 | 122 | #952 | — | — |
| 1958 | 129 | #902 | — | — |
| 1957 | 117 | #951 | — | — |
| 1956 | 128 | #881 | — | — |
| 1955 | 109 | #944 | — | — |
| 1954 | 124 | #848 | — | — |
| 1953 | 109 | #901 | — | — |
| 1952 | 92 | #985 | — | — |
| 1951 | 100 | #916 | — | — |
| 1950 | 82 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1949 | 76 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1946 | 57 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,252 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,193 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,062 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,061 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,375 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).