Meaning not yet researched.
Jolene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 423 in 2025. Its best rank was #245 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #245 in 1974; #666 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jolene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#666 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #245.
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Jolene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 423 girls in 2025. Peak: #245 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 1,053 (1974).
In 2025, 423 US girls were named Jolene, making it the 666th most common girls’ name of the year, down 63 places from #603 in 2024. That is 74 fewer than the 497 girls named Jolene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #245, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,053. For comparison, it was #734 in 2015 and #431 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jolene in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 7 babies. In all, 36,236 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 6,030 babies named Jolene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,074 US girls were named Jolene; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 693. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,800 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jolene ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #217 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Joleen (6,670 babies since 1880), Jolette (751 babies since 1880) and Jolynn (4,620 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Joline, Jolyn and Julene 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: Joline (2,136), Jolyn (1,984), Julene (1,715), Joelene (1,181), Jolena (1,167), Jolynne (474), Jolyne (377), Joylene (369), Jolaine (259), Jolane (197), Jolayne (170), Joleene (104), and more.
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 Jolene in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 8 | #217 | #374 |
| Washington | 19 | #375 | #800 |
| Oregon | 9 | #411 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #474 | #562 |
| Ohio | 23 | #476 | #556 |
| California | 68 | #494 | #675 |
| Arizona | 13 | #531 | #739 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #571 | #810 |
| Colorado | 9 | #609 | #656 |
| Missouri | 9 | #610 | #482 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #610 | #788 |
| Iowa | 5 | #617 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #623 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #629 | #747 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #658 | #614 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #664 | #794 |
| Michigan | 11 | #707 | #807 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #709 | #1,484 |
| Florida | 23 | #727 | #1,413 |
| Texas | 40 | #749 | #639 |
| Indiana | 8 | #760 | #458 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #816 | #893 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #836 | — |
| Tennessee | 8 | #845 | — |
| New York | 15 | #1,003 | #1,100 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,066 | #547 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,262 | #554 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,643 | #1,412 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 423 | #666 | — | — |
| 2024 | 497 | #603 | — | — |
| 2023 | 555 | #544 | — | — |
| 2022 | 645 | #488 | — | — |
| 2021 | 687 | #455 | — | — |
| 2020 | 647 | #475 | — | — |
| 2019 | 693 | #450 | — | — |
| 2018 | 692 | #455 | — | — |
| 2017 | 691 | #460 | — | — |
| 2016 | 544 | #573 | — | — |
| 2015 | 384 | #734 | — | — |
| 2014 | 388 | #722 | — | — |
| 2013 | 277 | #919 | — | — |
| 2012 | 298 | #889 | — | — |
| 2011 | 284 | #916 | — | — |
| 2010 | 263 | #970 | — | — |
| 2009 | 239 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 2008 | 228 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 2007 | 194 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 2006 | 204 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 2005 | 193 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 2004 | 222 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 2002 | 181 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 2001 | 170 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2000 | 149 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1999 | 129 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1998 | 147 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1997 | 160 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1996 | 154 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1995 | 159 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1994 | 162 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1993 | 208 | #918 | — | — |
| 1992 | 176 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1991 | 235 | #851 | — | — |
| 1990 | 254 | #793 | — | — |
| 1989 | 274 | #721 | — | — |
| 1988 | 389 | #556 | — | — |
| 1987 | 355 | #565 | — | — |
| 1986 | 368 | #553 | — | — |
| 1985 | 447 | #471 | — | — |
| 1984 | 545 | #395 | — | — |
| 1983 | 673 | #342 | — | — |
| 1982 | 768 | #316 | — | — |
| 1981 | 756 | #315 | — | — |
| 1980 | 718 | #337 | — | — |
| 1979 | 567 | #387 | — | — |
| 1978 | 632 | #342 | — | — |
| 1977 | 739 | #320 | — | — |
| 1976 | 766 | #301 | — | — |
| 1975 | 998 | #248 | 5 | #5,874 |
| 1974 | 1,053 | #245 | 7 | #4,385 |
| 1973 | 293 | #562 | — | — |
| 1972 | 266 | #599 | — | — |
| 1971 | 321 | #557 | — | — |
| 1970 | 383 | #512 | — | — |
| 1969 | 364 | #512 | — | — |
| 1968 | 381 | #498 | — | — |
| 1967 | 388 | #481 | — | — |
| 1966 | 436 | #447 | — | — |
| 1965 | 451 | #448 | — | — |
| 1964 | 479 | #446 | — | — |
| 1963 | 533 | #419 | — | — |
| 1962 | 585 | #393 | — | — |
| 1961 | 650 | #378 | — | — |
| 1960 | 522 | #427 | — | — |
| 1959 | 573 | #395 | — | — |
| 1958 | 628 | #364 | — | — |
| 1957 | 609 | #368 | — | — |
| 1956 | 492 | #408 | — | — |
| 1955 | 531 | #382 | — | — |
| 1954 | 491 | #390 | — | — |
| 1953 | 376 | #444 | — | — |
| 1952 | 378 | #441 | — | — |
| 1951 | 390 | #424 | — | — |
| 1950 | 352 | #431 | — | — |
| 1949 | 310 | #454 | — | — |
| 1948 | 284 | #475 | — | — |
| 1947 | 302 | #472 | — | — |
| 1946 | 250 | #494 | — | — |
| 1945 | 194 | #527 | — | — |
| 1944 | 204 | #504 | — | — |
| 1943 | 180 | #563 | — | — |
| 1942 | 223 | #500 | — | — |
| 1941 | 214 | #478 | — | — |
| 1940 | 186 | #508 | — | — |
| 1939 | 184 | #492 | — | — |
| 1938 | 160 | #538 | — | — |
| 1937 | 137 | #576 | — | — |
| 1936 | 83 | #730 | — | — |
| 1935 | 93 | #696 | — | — |
| 1934 | 86 | #719 | — | — |
| 1933 | 84 | #711 | — | — |
| 1932 | 70 | #818 | — | — |
| 1931 | 53 | #954 | — | — |
| 1930 | 49 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 1929 | 58 | #947 | — | — |
| 1928 | 56 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,668 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,226 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,236 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,040 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,063 | — | — |
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).