Jolie
Jolie was given to 243 girls in 2025, #1,030 among girls’ names; 14,099 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,700 Americans named Jolie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jolie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jolie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jolie is “a female given name from French.”
From French joli (feminine jolie).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jolie?
#1,030 among girls’ names, 2025
Jolie fell from #753 in 2015 to #1,030 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.15 per 1,000.
546 babies in 2008, the peak
Jolie peaked in 2008, when 546 girls were given it, #564 among girls’ names. The 243 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 243 | #1,030 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 294 | #902 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 295 | #905 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 358 | #790 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 389 | #735 | 0.24 |
| 2020 | 389 | #716 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 401 | #712 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 415 | #702 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 438 | #671 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 433 | #677 | 0.24 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 376 | #753 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 355 | #792 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 353 | #772 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 354 | #776 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 369 | #749 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 407 | #702 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 434 | #672 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 546 | #564 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 520 | #579 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 477 | #613 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 457 | #618 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 440 | #621 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 377 | #692 | 0.21 |
| 2002 | 412 | #620 | 0.23 |
| 2001 | 385 | #655 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 276 | #820 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 152 | #1,239 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,534 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 99 | #1,607 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 88 | #1,712 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,315 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,677 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,242 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,224 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 65 | #2,077 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,956 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,983 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,824 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,032 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,758 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,004 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,643 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,613 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,450 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 94 | #1,330 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,346 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 90 | #1,368 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 100 | #1,243 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 113 | #1,129 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 116 | #1,059 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 120 | #1,009 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 146 | #884 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 120 | #993 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 133 | #924 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 171 | #813 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 177 | #790 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 167 | #797 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 137 | #882 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 80 | #1,188 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 71 | #1,287 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 48 | #1,628 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 56 | #1,524 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,632 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,714 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,754 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 46 | #1,662 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 51 | #1,504 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,686 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,230 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,882 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,717 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,540 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jolie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jolie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jolie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jolie, and how old are they?
13,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 14,099 Americans ever recorded as Jolie. The median Jolie alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 11,940 people named Jolie (11,901 women and girls, 39 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,968 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 487 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,750 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,030 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,710 |
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 Jolie born?
The states with the most babies named Jolie are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 36 | #818 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 32 | #904 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 24 | #173 | 4.0× |
| New York | 20 | #809 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,146 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,067 | 0.6× |
| Connecticut | 8 | #363 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,279 | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 6 | #762 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,310 | 0.6× |
Where Jolie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jolie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1947 it was given 4.0 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 Jolie 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 36,821 babies since 1880, Jolie is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 243 of their 572 babies (42%), again the second 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 Jolie
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 Jolie and names like it
- Compare Jolie and JoelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJolie peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jolie since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Jolie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Jolie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jolie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.