Joleen
Joleen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 15 births. Its best rank was 754th, in 1974.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 150.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1974187 births
- Best rank
- #754in 1974
- Since 1925
- 6,649people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,649 girls have been named Joleen in the United States since 1925, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 187 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1970s alone account for 20%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Joleen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 35 | |
| 1930s | 231 | |
| 1940s | 450 | |
| 1950s | 1,112 | |
| 1960s | 1,097 | |
| 1970s | 1,302 | |
| 1980s | 988 | |
| 1990s | 443 | |
| 2000s | 486 | |
| 2010s | 371 | |
| 2020s | 134 |
In 1974, its biggest year
Joleen was the 754th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1974 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Heather and Angela. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Joleen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jolynpeak 1969
- Janellpeak 1979
- Lanitapeak 1958
- Joelenepeak 1975
- Davapeak 1954
- Joanniepeak 1954
- Jannapeak 1979
- Janapeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.