Joelene
Joelene was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,483 among girls’ names; 1,181 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joelene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Joelene mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Joelene is “a female given name.”
Variant of Jolene.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Joelene?
#12,483 among girls’ names, 2025
Joelene fell from #12,345 in 2015 to #12,483 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 4.4 per million.
37 babies in 1975, the peak
Joelene peaked in 1975, when 37 girls were given it, #2,252 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,483 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,670 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,738 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,785 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,646 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,073 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,127 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,256 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,345 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,433 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 | #9,881 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,742 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,081 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,905 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,336 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,210 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,557 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,382 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,679 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,493 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,247 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,401 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,152 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,724 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,447 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,969 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,148 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,521 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,344 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,908 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,533 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,142 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,725 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,364 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,056 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,808 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,580 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,090 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,727 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,661 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,826 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,589 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,039 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,576 | 21.5 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,335 | 14.3 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,252 | 25.4 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,317 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,672 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,633 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,771 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,933 | 8.6 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,553 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,607 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,935 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,638 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,979 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,206 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,240 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,115 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,009 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,789 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,521 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,447 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,386 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,288 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,461 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,398 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,182 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,862 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,628 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,484 | 9.9 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,275 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,447 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,342 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,193 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,824 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,882 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,944 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,897 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,937 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,083 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,278 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,627 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,609 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,971 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,367 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,622 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,328 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,146 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,113 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,438 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,195 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joelene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joelene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joelene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joelene, and how old are they?
An estimated 999 Americans named Joelene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 33 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 894 people named Joelene (892 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,011 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,767 babies since 1880, Joelene is the third most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 468 babies (1.5%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Joelene
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Joelene and names like it
- Compare Joelene and JoleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJoelene peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joelene since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Joelene.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Joelene alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.