Jolie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the French nickname or term of endearment jolie ‘pretty one’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌdʒoʊˈɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jolie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 48K
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the French nickname or term of endearment jolie ‘pretty one’. This is the feminine form of the adjective joli, which originally meant ‘gay’ or ‘festive’ and may derive from Old Norse j61 ‘Yule’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jolie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Jolie | 17 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Jolie | 14 |
| US United States | 11,940 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Jolie | 373 |
| NL Netherlands | 2,749 | 1 in 6.3K | 2.7K | Jolie | 32 |
| PH Philippines | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Jolie | 34 |
| SE Sweden | 657 | 1 in 16K | 657 | Jolie | 15 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Jolie | 20 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jolie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, variant of Joly.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, feminine singular of joli
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(measured from records)
- Jolie Gaborb. 1894USHungarian-American socialite, entrepreneur, memoirist; mother of the Gabor sisters
- Jolie Christine Rickmanb. 1970USAmerican feminist, humanitarian, social activist (1970-2005)
- Jolie Justusb. 1971USAmerican politician
- Jolie Jenkinsb. 1974USAmerican actress
- Angelina Jolieb. 1975USAmerican actress, humanitarian and filmmaker (born 1975)
- Jolie Hollandb. 1975USAmerican singer
- Jolie Vanierb. 1998USAmerican actress
- Gabbie Carterb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- Jolie Natalia Handlerb. 2009USactress
- Jolie JonesAmerican jazz vocalist
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)
Attested in 68 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,205 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.7K | #657 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.4K | #1,752 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 657 | #2,274 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 315 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 243 | — |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 134 | #111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39 | #2,205 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Jolie come from?
- From the French nickname or term of endearment jolie ‘pretty one’. This is the feminine form of the adjective joli, which originally meant ‘gay’ or ‘festive’ and may derive from Old Norse j61 ‘Yule’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Jolie a male or female name?
- Jolie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Jolie mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the French nickname or term of endearment jolie ‘pretty one’.
- How do you pronounce Jolie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌdʒoʊˈɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jolie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Jolie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jolie.
- Where is Jolie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jolie is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 6.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jolie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,940 people named Jolie in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jolieThe 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, “Jolie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.