Jolena
Jolena was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,587 among girls’ names; 1,167 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Jolena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 16 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jolena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jolena?
#8,587 among girls’ names, 2025
Jolena fell from #6,126 in 2015 to #8,587 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 7.5 per million.
34 babies in 1982, the peak
Jolena peaked in 1982, when 34 girls were given it, #2,728 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,587 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,214 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,919 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,436 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,823 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,370 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,516 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,149 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,863 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,066 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,126 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,819 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,192 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,624 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,444 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,908 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,785 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,072 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,791 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,624 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,412 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,833 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,760 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,758 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,608 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,960 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,476 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,182 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,037 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,900 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,089 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,113 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,485 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,234 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,070 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,956 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,112 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,377 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,507 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,570 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,486 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,910 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,733 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,728 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,379 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,552 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,102 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,345 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,800 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,729 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,909 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,711 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,849 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,652 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,019 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,126 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,206 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,564 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,153 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,306 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,515 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,774 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,168 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,057 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,685 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,942 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,714 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,707 | 2.9 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,487 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,789 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,649 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,947 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jolena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jolena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jolena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jolena, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,167 Americans ever recorded as Jolena. The median Jolena alive today is 30 years old; half are between 16 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 959 people named Jolena (957 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 69 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 242 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 252 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 349 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 210 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,519 babies since 1880, Jolena is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 479 babies (2.5%), the third most given that year.
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 Jolena
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 Jolena and names like it
- Compare Jolena and JoleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJolena peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jolena since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jolena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jolena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.