Jolié
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jolié is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the French nickname or term of endearment jolie ‘pretty one’. This is the feminine form of the adjective joli, which originally meant ‘gay’ or ‘festive’ and may derive from Old Norse j61 ‘Yule’.
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 48K
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jolie in US United States, NL Netherlands, PH Philippines and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the French nickname or term of endearment jolie ‘pretty one’. This is the feminine form of the adjective joli, which originally meant ‘gay’ or ‘festive’ and may derive from Old Norse j61 ‘Yule’.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jolié counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Jolie | 17 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Jolie | 14 |
| US United States | 11,940 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Jolie | 373 |
| NL Netherlands | 2,749 | 1 in 6.3K | 2.7K | Jolie | 32 |
| PH Philippines | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Jolie | 34 |
| SE Sweden | 657 | 1 in 16K | 657 | Jolie | 15 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Jolie | 20 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #34,383 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jolié mean, and where does it come from?
- From the French nickname or term of endearment jolie ‘pretty one’. This is the feminine form of the adjective joli, which originally meant ‘gay’ or ‘festive’ and may derive from Old Norse j61 ‘Yule’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- Is Jolié a male or female name?
- Jolié is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jolié have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Jolié in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jolie.
- Where is Jolié most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jolié is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 6.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jolié?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,940 people named Jolié in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joli%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jolié”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.