Jolly is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Jolly is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Jolly each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Jolly will meet someone with the same name. So, Jolly is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Jolly. Children named Jolly have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 2,130 Jolly ranked higher than ever in 1891. By comparison, there have been 84 years in which the first name Jolly has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their newborns Jolly only once in a blue moon, so people with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jolly was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Jolly continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Jolly that year, ranking #25,193 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Jolly, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a very popular first letter for given names. That’s because 8.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the initial letter A is more common for first names.
With five letters, the name Jolly 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.
That means that if 8.3% of all first names start with a J, this initial letter occurs more than two times as often as all other letters on average.
If your name is Jolly 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 Jolly, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Lion
Lion
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jolly
Jolly
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
L
L
Y
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
L
Y
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. Jolly sounds like this:
