Jolene is a French given name, derived from the surname Jolie, which means ‘pretty’. Unlike in the U.S., Jolie is used only a last name in France.
Jolene is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Jolene isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Jolene ranks 527. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Jolene. In the entire USA, approximately 30,341 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jolene. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Jolene is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jolene and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jolene, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jolene
Jolene
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
L
E
N
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
O
L
E
N
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jolene sounds like this:
