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The first name 
Jolie

Jolie is a first name for girls.

Jolie is a common name for girls!

The name Jolie 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, Jolie ranks 660. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Jolie. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jolie.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Jolie

What does the name 
Jolie mean?

Jolie is a French surname, that means ‘pretty’. It was popularized as a given name by actress Angelina Jolie, whose surname was originally her middle name. She was born Angelina Jolie Voight.

In France,... Jolie is not used as a given name.

Jolie has 5 letters 
and begins with a J

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 five letters, the name Jolie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.

Other names with 
J, o, l, i and e

If you take all the letters in the name Jolie – J, o, l, i and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Jolei or Joeli.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Jolie

If your name is Jolie 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...

This is how you spell the name Jolie

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jolie, you can simply say:

Joker

Orange

Lion

Igloo

Elephant

This is how the name Jolie is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Jolie in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Jolie

Jolie

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Jolie

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Jolie is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

J
O
L
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Jolie

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
I
E

Beeping like crazy...

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. Jolie sounds like this: