Jolliffe

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variant of Jolly. dolls (103) English: variant of Jolles

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

Pronunciation:

Jolliffe is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

  • AUAustralia
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin

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Derivation of Jolliffe: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Jolliffe
  1. Middle Englishjoli“merry“merry, cheerful”(inferred from the name graph)via Jolly
  2. Old Norsejól"a midwinter feast“a midwinter feast, Yule”(inferred from the name graph)via Jolly
  3. Latingaudeōsee etymology at joy(inferred from the name graph)via Jolly

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

variant of Jolly. dolls (103) English: variant of Jolles.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world

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Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses

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Jolliffe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A surname from Anglo-Norman.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

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16001700180019002000John Jolliffe, b. 1697Hylton Jolliffe, b. 1773William Jolliffe, 1st Baron Hylton, b. 1800Hedworth Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton, b. 1829William Sydney Hylton Jolliffe, b. 1841Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton, b. 1862Henry Jolliffe, b. 1865Anne Jolliffe, b. 1933Jill Jolliffe, b. 1945Edmund Jolliffe, b. 1976

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

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FormalDear Jolliffe,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Jolliffe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010997#24,934
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000995#23,739
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020942#27,155
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200731#40,317
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—17#91,572
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20083#122,423
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#264,954
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#194,233
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#340,843
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19851—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jolliffe mean, and where does it come from?
variant of Jolly. dolls (103) English: variant of Jolles. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
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Jolliffe is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jolliffe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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