as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: recent coinage, combining the short form Jo with the productive suffix -lene, extracted from names such as Marlene. It seems to have originated in the United States in the 1940s. It was made famous by a hit song with this title, recorded by Dolly Parton in 1979.
| 985th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,774
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Jolene per capita
- 1974
- marked the height of its popularity
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15%
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