Joleah — girls' name
171 babies named Joleah in U.S. Social Security records since 1982, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
56% of everyone ever named Joleah was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Joleah in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Joleah
The Social Security Administration has registered 171 babies named Joleah between 1982 and 2022, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Joleah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 14 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Joleah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Joleah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Joleah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 171 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Joleah at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Joleah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1982
- Peak year (2017)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
171 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 14 births in a single year.
Joleah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 95 births that decade — 56% of Joleah's all-time total
Joleah decade highlights
- Peak decade 95 births
- Runner-up 49 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Joleah's strongest decade
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 56% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1982–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.