Joleen
About 6,670 American babies have been named Joleen since 1925, most of them around 1974. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 5,800 Joleens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 49.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Joleen
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,670
- Estimated living today
- 5,800
- Median age today
- 49
- Peak year
- 1974
- Best rank
- 754th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1925
How old the living Joleens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,670 babies given the name since 1925, about 5,800 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 610 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1976 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Joleen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Joleen is most concentrated in Iowa (9.9×), Minnesota (6.9×), Kansas (4.5×), North Dakota (3.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1974
The most popular girls’ names the year Joleen peaked:
Joleen elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland girls | Joleen | 189 | 373rd |
| France girls | Joleen | 65 | 3,328th |
| Ireland girls | Joleen | 35 | 469th |
| England and Wales girls | Joleen | 26 | 2,466th |
| Scotland girls | Joleen | 13 | 472nd |
| Poland girls | Joleen | 2 birth registrations | 734th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Joleen: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Joleen | 178 | 0.014% | 284th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Joleen | 9 | 0.002% | 512th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Joleen | 2 | 0.003% | 191st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Joleen is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.01% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Joleen by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 32 | 236th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Joleen against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.