Joleen
Joleen was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,810 among girls’ names; 6,670 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,770 Americans named Joleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 37 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joleen?
#5,810 among girls’ names, 2025
Joleen fell from #4,102 in 2015 to #5,810 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 13.1 per million.
187 babies in 1974, the peak
Joleen peaked in 1974, when 187 girls were given it, #754 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,810 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,397 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,923 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,523 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,277 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,688 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,962 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,883 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,238 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,958 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #4,102 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,512 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,579 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,769 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,518 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,487 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,766 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,892 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,904 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,647 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,797 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,413 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,968 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,946 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,670 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,476 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,106 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,446 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,483 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,917 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,561 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,514 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,686 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,132 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,196 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,578 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 59 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,955 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,753 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,556 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,449 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 97 | #1,289 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 127 | #1,085 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 135 | #1,065 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 131 | #1,075 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 145 | #1,007 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 116 | #1,148 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 136 | #1,004 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 182 | #825 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 173 | #804 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 161 | #837 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 187 | #754 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 76 | #1,332 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 62 | #1,519 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 89 | #1,246 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 120 | #1,032 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 115 | #1,013 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 91 | #1,122 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 88 | #1,124 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 105 | #1,004 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 102 | #1,039 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,129 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 111 | #1,011 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 134 | #915 | 0.07 |
| 1961 | 132 | #940 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 124 | #960 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 122 | #951 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 129 | #901 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 117 | #950 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 128 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 109 | #943 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 124 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 109 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 92 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 100 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 82 | #1,010 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 76 | #1,026 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 66 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,472 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 57 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 36 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 28 | #1,484 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,265 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,400 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,732 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,032 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,059 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,734 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,373 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joleen, and how old are they?
5,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 6,670 Americans ever recorded as Joleen. The median Joleen alive today is 50 years old; half are between 37 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 5,709 people named Joleen (5,705 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,884 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 166 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,540 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,820 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 689 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 402 |
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 Joleen born?
The states with the most babies named Joleen are California, Iowa and Minnesota, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Iowa and Minnesota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 910 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Iowa | 464 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| Minnesota | 445 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Washington | 210 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 192 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Kansas | 166 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 164 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 150 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 145 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 106 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Joleen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Joleen is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1925 it was given 4.7 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 Joleen 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 19,750 babies since 1880, Joleen is the most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 50 babies (42%), again the 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 Joleen
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 Joleen and names like it
- Compare Joleen and JoellenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJoleen peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Joleen.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Joleen alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.