Jolea
Jolea was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 196 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jolea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jolea?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,258, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 2003, the peak
Jolea peaked in 2003, when 13 girls were given it, #8,211 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,258 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,207 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,861 | 5.4 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,134 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,745 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,830 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,994 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,158 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,034 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,047 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #9,247 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,881 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,651 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,946 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,211 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,835 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,486 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,483 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,923 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,223 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,484 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,424 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,419 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,857 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,988 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jolea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jolea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jolea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jolea, and how old are they?
An estimated 192 Americans named Jolea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 278 people named Jolea (278 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 181 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 24,242 babies since 1880, Jolea is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 356 babies recorded by SSA was a Jolea (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jolea
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 Jolea and names like it
- Compare Jolea and JolieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJolea peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Jolea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jolea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.