Jolee
Jolee was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,669 among girls’ names; 3,897 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,780 Americans named Jolee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jolee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jolee?
#2,669 among girls’ names, 2025
Jolee fell from #1,925 in 2015 to #2,669 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 58.8 to 40.4 per million.
161 babies in 2017, the peak
Jolee peaked in 2017, when 161 girls were given it, #1,420 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,669 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,399 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,262 | 51.1 |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,115 | 55.5 |
| 2021 | 98 | #1,985 | 59.7 |
| 2020 | 130 | #1,614 | 80.4 |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,610 | 78.6 |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,572 | 81.1 |
| 2017 | 161 | #1,420 | 93.3 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,608 | 77.3 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,925 | 58.8 |
| 2014 | 95 | #2,062 | 53.2 |
| 2013 | 94 | #2,058 | 53.6 |
| 2012 | 125 | #1,687 | 71.0 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,822 | 63.1 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,866 | 61.3 |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,781 | 66.4 |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,749 | 67.2 |
| 2007 | 116 | #1,833 | 60.3 |
| 2006 | 130 | #1,634 | 68.4 |
| 2005 | 117 | #1,694 | 63.3 |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,799 | 57.7 |
| 2003 | 73 | #2,305 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,956 | 50.1 |
| 2001 | 83 | #2,034 | 46.1 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,751 | 29.2 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,271 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,033 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,896 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,667 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,297 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,739 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,914 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,437 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,068 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,955 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,414 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,074 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,179 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,809 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,194 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,363 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,868 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,826 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,474 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,764 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,822 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,686 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,313 | 15.0 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,219 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,435 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,084 | 27.3 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,946 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 33 | #2,291 | 21.7 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,561 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,215 | 20.6 |
| 1969 | 37 | #2,073 | 21.9 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,104 | 20.1 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,135 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,453 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,052 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,299 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,008 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,500 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,575 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,795 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,793 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,612 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,444 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,569 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,893 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,399 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,006 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,958 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,375 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,313 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,491 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,038 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,988 | 3.4 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,763 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,561 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jolee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jolee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jolee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jolee, and how old are they?
3,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,897 Americans ever recorded as Jolee. The median Jolee alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,140 people named Jolee (3,110 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 371 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 337 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,400 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jolee born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #2,127 | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #831 | 1.1× |
Where Jolee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jolee is most over-represented in Texas: since 1939 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jolee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 36,754 babies since 1880, Jolee is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 566 babies (11%), again the third most given.
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 Jolee
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 Jolee and names like it
- Compare Jolee and JoelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJolee peaked in 2017.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jolee since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Jolee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jolee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.