How popular is the name Joleen?

Joleen ranks 1,567th among girls' names in US records, with 8,303 births since 1925. Over the past decade it accounts for 398.

Is Joleen a unisex name?

No. Joleen is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1974, when 237 children were given the name. It has been in use for 100 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Joelene, Jolean, Joeleen, Jolien. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,567 of girl names

Pronounced JH OW1 L IY1 N (ARPABET)

Joleen is a girls' name, and first appears in 1925. It has been given to 8,303 children — the 1,567th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 398 births across the past decade, against a peak of 237 in a single year. That peak was in 1974.

Four other spellings are counted in that total — Joelene, Jolean, Joeleen and one more — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Joleen and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Joleen?: Joleen ranks 1,567th among girls' names in US records, with 8,303 births since 1925. Over the past decade it accounts for 398.
Is Joleen a unisex name?: No. Joleen is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Joleen most popular?: 1974, when 237 children were given the name. It has been in use for 100 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Joleen spelled?: Joelene, Jolean, Joeleen, Jolien. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.