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In the entire world, Joly (Joly , جولي , 乔利 ) is a common gender-neutral forename. The first name Joly is habitual in Syria, where it is quite a common primarily feminine, but very infrequently male name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare largely masculine, but seldom female name, and Saudi Arabia, where it is quite a rare primarily female, but scarcely boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, and India. Also, Joly is the last name as well as the forename.
Joly is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Joly , the musical character in the musical Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Julie Madison , the fictional character throughout the DC Universe, Batman & Robin; Julie James , the fictional character in I Know What You Did Last Summer; Julie North , the character from web comic Sandra and Woo and Julie d'Aiglemont , the Honoré de Balzac character, A Woman of Thirty, and in many other works.