Joli
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.
Joli by the numbers
Joli was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 37 babies in 1969, making it a 1960s name.
What we can tell you about Joli
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 Joli. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Joliepretty, cheerful437 in the US (2017)
- Jonigod is gracious; a form of Joan or Jonah111 in England and Wales (2025)
- Joijoy; gladness and pleasure; modern respelling of Joy73 in the US (2017)
- Jodia form of Jody, from Judith; praised48 in the US (2017)
- Josigod increases; a form of josephine or joseph22 in the US (2017)
- Julivariant of Julie or Julius, youthful8 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Joli
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