Jolie

Where Jolie comes from

From French joli (feminine jolie).
— Wiktionary's entry for Jolie
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1894
    Jolie Gabor born
    Hungarian-American socialite, entrepreneur, memoirist; mother of the Gabor sisters
  2. 1947
    First appearance
    #4,345 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1975
    Jolie Holland born
    American singer
  4. 2008
    Peak, #563
    546 babies named Jolie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,029.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Jolie Holland · American singer, born 1975
  • Jolie Gabor · Hungarian-American socialite, entrepreneur, memoirist; mother of the Gabor sisters, 1894–1997
  • Jolie Justus · American politician, born 1971
  • Jolie Detta · Congolese singer-songwriter, dancer, and evangelist, 1968–2008
  • Jolie Jenkins · American actress, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.