Girls' name · since 1935
Jolane
Jolane has 197 recorded births since 1935 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1940 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,961 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 197
- born since 1935
- 1950s
- peak decade
Jolane is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 197 have been recorded since 1935.
Jolane has 197 recorded births among girls since 1935, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1935 to 1975.
- #19,961 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 197 born since 1935
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jolane ranks #19,961 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 197 born since 1935, peaking in the 1950s.
- #19,961 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 197
- born since 1935
- 1950s
- peak decade
Jolane's 197 recorded births place it above 72.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jolane's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jolane's full recorded timeline at 1954, 42% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 58% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1942, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1940 peak of 20 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jolane popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1935–1975
- Peak year (1940)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 41 years of records
Jolane by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (71 births, 36% of the file).
1950s was Jolane's strongest decade.
71 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 36% of all-time use.
Jolane births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s 18
1930s
18 births
- 1940s
1940s
62 births
- 1950s
1950s
71 births
- 1960s
1960s
41 births
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 71 births (36% of all-time use).
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- Jolane's decade-level peak was the 1950s (71 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1970s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Jolane: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1940)
Similar record span (~40 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1935–1975 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jolane draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.