Girl name#657 of girl names
Jolene
Pronounced JH OW0 L IY1 N (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 1974
- 107 years in use
How popular is Jolene?
Jolene is a girls' name, and first appears in 1918. It has been given to 35,809 children — the 657th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 1974, when 1,053 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- JH OW0 L IY1 N
- Stress pattern:
- 01
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Jolene
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Jolene
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Jolene?
- Jolene ranks 657th among girls' names in US records, with 35,809 births since 1918. Over the past decade it accounts for 6,031.
- Is Jolene a unisex name?
- No. Jolene is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Jolene most popular?
- 1974, when 1,053 children were given the name. It has been in use for 107 years and is still recorded as of 2024.