Joylene
Joylene was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 369 Americans have been recorded with it between 1927 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Joylene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Joylene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,630, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1942, the peak
Joylene peaked in 1942, when 15 girls were given it, #2,352 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #18,630 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,985 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,723 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,617 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,418 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,997 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,283 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,771 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,712 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,339 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #8,966 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,850 | 4.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,560 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,210 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,097 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,113 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,112 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,340 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,056 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,000 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,158 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,946 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,802 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,502 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,799 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,629 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,548 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,401 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,828 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,685 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,743 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,993 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,439 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,054 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,860 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,198 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,009 | 7.7 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,993 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,352 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,768 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,088 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 9 | #3,019 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,076 | 5.4 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,040 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,582 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,735 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,664 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,294 | 5.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,549 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Joylene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Joylene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Joylene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Joylene, and how old are they?
An estimated 262 Americans named Joylene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 53 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 390 people named Joylene (389 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,767 babies since 1880, Joylene is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 468 babies recorded by SSA was a Joylene (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Joylene
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 Joylene and names like it
- Compare Joylene and JoleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sJoylene peaked in 1942.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Joylene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Joylene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with JMost given first.