Jolee vs Joli
American parents have registered 3,897 Jolees since 1880, against 1,155 Jolis. Jolee is still ahead, with 65 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jolee Joli
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 81 years in which either name was published, Jolee for 72 years and Joli for 9 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Jolee | Joli | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,897 | 1,155 |
| Most in one year | 161 | 37 |
| Babies in 2025 | 65 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 3,800 | 1,100 |
| Median age today | 17 | 40 |
| Peak year | 2017 | 1969 |
| Best rank | 1,416th girls | 2,058th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,645th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1939 | 1950 |
| Girls / boys | 3,897 / 0 | 1,155 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Jolis alive today are over 40; half the Jolees are over 17. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jolee and Joli.