Jolene

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jolene: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jolene: Recorded since 1975, its highest recorded position is #75, and it stood at #1,894 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
63times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#75highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#869
1997	#1287
1998	#1571
1999	#1473
2000	#1475
2001	#1728
2002	#1928
2003	#1269
2004	#1952
2005	#1406
2006	#1502
2007	#1965
2008	#2150
2009	#2019
2010	#3533
2011	#2025
2012	#3285
2013	#2649
2014	#1798
2015	#2328
2016	#3214
2017	#1911
2018	#2340
2019	#1782
2020	#1687
2021	#2341
2022	#2673
2023	#2063
2024	#1894

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 25 of the 48 years from 1976 to 2023.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2063 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1975–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1975
First recorded at #75 among girls in New Zealand in 1975 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Girls
Highest recorded1975–1979
Highest recorded position: #75 among girls in New Zealand, in 1975 (recorded 1975–1979).
New Zealand · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1894 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Jolene appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 363 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Girls, from 1975.

Jolene across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jolene's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#497 (1976)	#310 (1995)	#856 (2023)	25 of 48	122 (1976–2023)	11 (1980)
England and Wales · Girls	#869 (1996)	#869 (1996)	#1894 (2024)	29 of 29	363 (1996–2024)	25 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#271 (1997)	#252 (2002)	#284 (2003)	4 of 7	17 (1997–2003)	5 (1997)
New Zealand · Girls	#75 (1975)	#75 (1975)	#78 (1979)	5 of 5	313 (1975–1979)	75 (1975)

Jolene by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jolene in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	62	4 of 10	16
2000sbusiest	125	10 of 10	13
2010s	111	10 of 10	11
2020s	65	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jolene appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #75 in New Zealand in 1975.

Jolene's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1894	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1782	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2340	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1911	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2019	12	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1965	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1502	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1952	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1269	17	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1571	11	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified
1979	New Zealand	female	#78	68	High	Verified
1978	New Zealand	female	#96	51	High	Verified
1977	New Zealand	female	#82	64	High	Verified
1976	New Zealand	female	#100	55	High	Verified
1975	New Zealand	female	#75	75	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#284	4	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#252	5	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#271	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#496	4	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#310	9	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#350	7	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#409	5	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#377	6	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#442	4	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	5	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#422	5	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	6	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#529	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#399	6	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#311	11	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#388	6	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1975 and 2024, ranked in 46 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #75, first reached in 1975.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 75 births, registered in New Zealand in 1975.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1976, and 22 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Jolanta · #151, 39y
Joleen · #446, 17y
Jolie · #331, 29y
Jolyon · #950, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Karol · #75, 50y
Caragh · #80, 47y
Mateusz · #80, 48y
Jody · #67, 45y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Jonathon · #74, 43y
Tristan · #74, 49y
Vaughan · #74, 31y
Brad · #77, 36y

Jolene was ranked #75 in New Zealand · Girls in 1975. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jolene and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jolene without appearing here.

Jolene moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2340 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1782 and #5591.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2649 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1798 and #4684.
Kristy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1798 and #4684.
Lorraine Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3214 and #2966 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1911 and #4763.

Moved ahead of Jolene

Audrey Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1269 and #1325 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #1952 and #736.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1798 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #1240.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1687 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1286.
Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1728 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1928 and #938.

Moved the opposite way to Jolene

Abigail Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jolene went from #497 to #856 while Abigail went from #271 to #84.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jolene went from #497 to #856 while Alexandra went from #263 to #148.
Alice Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jolene went from #497 to #856 while Alice went from #138 to #38.
Anna Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jolene went from #497 to #856 while Anna went from #69 to #23.

Moved the same way as Jolene

Alma Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jolene went from #497 to #856 and Alma from #229 to #625.
Audrey Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jolene went from #497 to #856 and Audrey from #52 to #856.
Diane Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jolene went from #497 to #856 and Diane from #152 to #727.
Eileen Compare
Between 1976 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Jolene went from #497 to #856 and Eileen from #52 to #445.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1975 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #75 in New Zealand in 1975. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jolene

Jolene at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jolene across 4 official records

Jolene by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jolene appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

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Jolene moved ahead of

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Jolene at a glance

Jolene across 4 official records

Jolene by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Jolene appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Jolene

Jolene and the names beside it

Jolene moved ahead of

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