Joleen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Jolene
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Joleen is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 58K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 73K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
5,709 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alternative form of Jolene.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Joleen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,709 | 1 in 58K | 5.7K | Joleen | 331 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Joleen | 36 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 278K | — | Joleen | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 3 | Joleen | 94 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 1 | Joleen | 92 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Joleen | 41 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 11 | Joleen | 30 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #108 | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Joleen | 2 |
5,709 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jo Evansb. 1960USnot in their usual nameAmerican softball player and coach
- Joleen McLaughlinb. 1980IEIrish musician
- Joleen Hakkerb. 1981NLDutch rower
- Joleen Mittonb. 1983film director
- Joleen Königb. 2002DEGerman association football player
- Joleen LutzUSAmerican actor
- Joleen BelleJPJapanese composer
- Joleen K. CarlbergUSastronomer, red giant and exoplanet researcher
- Joleen GoffinBelgian theater performer
- Joleen PaterUSresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.7K | #3,588 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 187 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 182 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 173 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 161 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 145 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 136 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 135 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 21 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1979 | 11 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1995 | 9 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1993 | 9 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Joleen a male or female name?
- Joleen is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- What does the name Joleen mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Jolene. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Joleen?
- In the etymology graph, Janet, Juana and Josefina are forms of the same name in other languages; Jojo is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Joan and Joanne.
- In which country does Joleen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Joleen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled joleen.
- How common is the name Joleen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,709 people named Joleen in 2020, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Joleen compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Joleen is the 108th most common given name of 3,327 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/joleenThe 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, “Joleen” — the 108th most common given name in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.