Baby name
STABLE
🇩🇪 🇺🇸 Joleen
/jo · LEEN/
Meaning
“Unknown”
Variant of Jolene, a 20th-century American coinage blending Jo with the suffix -lene; popularized largely by Dolly Parton's 1973 hit song.
Nicknames
jo
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Permanently shadowed by the Dolly Parton song; nostalgic and charming for the right family.
The cultural moment.
Popular in the United States in the 1970s following the Dolly Parton song; slow decline since.