How rare is the name Jolie?

11,940 people in the United States have the first name Jolie, about 1 in 25,296. It ranks #2,205 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

JOLIE

#2,205

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,940
About
1 in 25,296
This common or more
78.9%
Who bears it

Of the 11,940 people named Jolie, 64.4% reported their origin as White, 12.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.6% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Jolie peaked in 2008, when 546 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19472025
Peak year
2008
Births that year
546
In 2025*
243 ▼55%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 14,099 babies have been given the name since 1947. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Jolie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #1,194. The largest share of babies named Jolie, 41.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#9,04222
1950s#2,970339
1960s#2,101741
1970s#1,6981,286
1980s#2,704714
1990s#3,084804
2000s#1,1944,324
2010s#1,3703,901
2020s#1,5911,968
Baby boom 1946–644.2%
Generation X 1965–8013.4%
Millennials 1981–967.5%
Generation Z 1997–1241.2%
2013 and later33.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Jolie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jolie has been most common in Louisiana (4.8×), Florida (2×), and California (1.7×), and least common in Iowa (0.27×).

10,898 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Jolie

#2,203 Cathryn · 11,957#2,204 Daria · 11,948#2,206 Sabina · 11,932#2,207 Ina · 11,921

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jolie, most common first.

#5,465 Jolee · 3,140#11,314 Joli · 1,141#25,763 Jole · 366#34,154 Joelie · 240#39,915 Jolia · 188#51,501 Jollie · 113

Also a last name

As a last name, Jolie ranks #55,981 of 156,621, with 395 people. See Jolie as a last name

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