Joley
Joley was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,974 among girls’ names; 378 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joley?
#15,974 among girls’ names, 2025
Joley fell from #13,658 in 2015 to #15,974 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.1 per million.
25 babies in 2009, the peak
Joley peaked in 2009, when 25 girls were given it, #5,614 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,974 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,259 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,258 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,386 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,744 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,949 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,331 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,546 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,658 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,821 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #13,830 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,452 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,967 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,270 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,614 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,554 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,822 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,457 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,085 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,533 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,761 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,218 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,169 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,250 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,842 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,204 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,766 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,405 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,225 | 2.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,266 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,665 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,489 | 5.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,257 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,344 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,521 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,610 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joley, and how old are they?
An estimated 370 Americans named Joley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 413 people named Joley (391 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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).
How common is the spelling Joley?
Joley is a less common spelling of Jolie: SSA has recorded 378 Joley and 14,099 Jolie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,897 babies since 1880, Joley is the fifth most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 331 babies (1.5%), the fourth 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 Joley
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 Joley and names like it
- Compare Joley and JolieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJoley peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Joley since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Joley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Joley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.