girls:
6.6k births since 1925
#2016 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1925
#3310 (57th percentile)
The name Joleen is the #3,310 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,634 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 57.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,016 (64.7% percentile) for all time with 6,634 births since 1925.
Joleen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (first recorded for girls in 1925).
For girls, Joleen reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 24.4% percentile (ranked #564) with 119 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 119 births per million (ranked 24.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Joleen ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 12.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Joleen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Joleen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.8% confident that Joleen is pronounced as JOH-leen, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is joh-LEEN, at 43.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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