Jolean
Jolean was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 257 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jolean by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jolean?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,922, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1977, the peak
Jolean peaked in 1977, when 16 girls were given it, #4,304 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #14,922 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,747 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,051 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,276 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,371 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,406 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,255 | 3.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,684 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,575 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,923 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #13,266 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,695 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,206 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,835 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,687 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,966 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,341 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,530 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,607 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,220 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,989 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,304 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,459 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,707 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,328 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,989 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,151 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,490 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,706 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,371 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,135 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,580 | 3.9 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,991 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,711 | 4.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,007 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jolean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jolean has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jolean: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jolean, and how old are they?
An estimated 234 Americans named Jolean and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 36 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 324 people named Jolean (317 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,351 babies since 1880, Jolean is the fifth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 45 babies recorded by SSA was a Jolean (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.
More about Jolean and names like it
- Compare Jolean and JoleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJolean peaked in 1977.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Jolean.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jolean alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.