Girls' name · since 1943
Joleene
Since 1943, U.S. Social Security records show 104 babies named Joleene, peaking in 1981. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 104
- total births
- 1943–2017
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 29%
- born in that decade
Joleene is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 104 have been recorded since 1943.
Joleene has 104 recorded births among girls since 1943, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1943 to 2017.
- 104 total births
- 1943–2017 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 29% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Joleene's 104 recorded births place it above 63% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Joleene's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Joleene's full recorded timeline at 1976, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1946, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1981 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Joleene popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1943–2017
- Peak year (1981)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 75 years of records
Joleene by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Joleene's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 29% of all-time use.
Joleene births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s
1940s
16 births
- 1950s
1950s
12 births
- 1960s 11
1960s
11 births
- 1970s
1970s
30 births
- 1980s
1980s
14 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 6
2000s
6 births
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 30 births (29% of all-time use).
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- Joleene's usage has stayed within range of its 1970s decade-level peak (30 total births) through the 2010s (10) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1943–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Joleene: Baby Name Since 1943 - 104 Births, Peak 1981." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/joleene. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Joleene draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.