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Jolie

Pronunciation
[Jo-lie]
Gender
Female
Meaning
Cheerful: Pretty.
Origin
English
Jolie is a girl name of French origin, and the meaning of Jolie is pretty, cheerful. Jolie is as pretty as its literal meaning, Angelina Jolie use it as her surname, though it was originally her middle name.

About the Name Jolie

Jolie comes directly from the French adjective jolie, meaning "pretty" or "cheerful" — an everyday word transformed into a name through its sheer prettiness of sound. That literal sweetness gives it an effortless charm: it is a compliment and a name at once, light on the tongue and warmly feminine, carrying a built-in air of brightness and good cheer that few names can match so directly.

One memorable bearer was Jolie Gabor, born Janka Tilleman in 1896 in Budapest, a Hungarian-American jeweler and memoirist who became the celebrated matriarch of the glamorous Gabor family. Her larger-than-life presence and theatrical flair helped lend the name a touch of old-world sparkle, tying it to an era of stage and society glamour.

Jolie first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for girls in 2000 and has remained there ever since, reaching its peak in 2008 at rank #564. It held at #902 in 2024, with 293 girls given the name that year, and stood at #790 as recently as 2022, having accumulated 9,949 girls across its top-1000 run. Recorded variants include Joely, Joli, and Joliet, offering subtle alternatives to a name whose appeal lies in its sunny, ready-made meaning — a word of pure cheerfulness that needs no translation at all to charm and delight.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.

Quick Facts About Jolie

5,642
English baby names in our dictionary
2,251
English female names
209
5-letter J-names in our dictionary
525
J-female names total
2000–2024
years of US SSA records (25 total)
9,949
total US births named Jolie (all years)

US Popularity History (2000–2024)

📉 Falling fast: Jolie dropped 191 places in the US girls ranking over the last 5 years (#711 in 2019 → #902 in 2024).

Annual US births named Jolie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2008 with 546 girls named Jolie (girl rank #564 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2024, ranked #902 for girls (293 US births). That's 338 places below its 2008 peak.

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Jolie Most Popular?

Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Jolie the strongest states are Louisiana, Connecticut, Arkansas.

Strongest girls-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 Louisiana #160 276
2 Connecticut #452 26
3 Arkansas #492 20
4 Kansas #535 32
5 New York #596 279
6 Iowa #606 21
7 New Jersey #624 104
8 Oklahoma #664 48
9 Colorado #671 32
10 Missouri #674 51

Weakest girls-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 Ohio #902 79
2 Illinois #893 56
3 Minnesota #881 16
4 North Carolina #877 42
5 Virginia #859 39
6 Arizona #855 37
7 Michigan #851 61
8 Pennsylvania #827 47
9 Maryland #787 33
10 Texas #785 361

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Jolie in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

NameMeaningGenderOrigin
Joely Variant Of Joel. Female English
Joli Cheerful: Pretty. Female English

Famous People Named Jolie

1 notable figure from history and culture who share the name Jolie.

  • Jolie Gabor was a Hungarian- born American entrepreneur and socialite.

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Compare Jolie to Other Popular Names

Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Jolie against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).

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Jolie vs Sophia 169,709 births since 2014
Jolie vs Isabella 158,431 births since 2014
Jolie vs Ava 157,356 births since 2014
Jolie vs Charlotte 151,872 births since 2014
Jolie vs Mia 149,779 births since 2014
Jolie vs Amelia 142,728 births since 2014
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