Names/J

Joleen

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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
Babies named Joleen, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Joleen
1920s35
1930s231
1940s450
1950s1,112
1960s1,097
1970s1,302
1980s988
1990s443
2000s486
2010s371
2020s134

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.

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.