Joleen

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 25 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
25
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Joleen by the numbers

Joleen was given to 25 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 187 babies in 1974, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Joleen

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Joleen. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jolee160 in the US (2017)
  • Jolen8 in the US (2017)
  • Jolean6 in the US (2017)
  • Juleen6 in the US (2017)
  • Jolenegod is gracious; blend of Jo- with -lene, a feminine form of John687 in the US (2017)
  • Joliepretty, cheerful437 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Joleen

Names that are said the same way as Joleen, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Joleen

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