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Joley

Gender
Girl
Say it
JOH-lee
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Joley is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

Where does Joley come from?

Modern: modern coinage, perhaps from Jolie or Jo + -ley

Is Joley a girl's or a boy's name?

Joley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Joley in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 7 girls.

1996Busiest: 7 in 20042008
Joley in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20084#4,742
20070–
20064#4,357
20053#4,976
20047#2,669
20034#3,768
20023#4,284
20014#3,427
20000–
19990–
19980–
19974#3,345
19961#5,054

How popular is Joley in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Joley, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1968.

Half of all the girls named Joley in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 113 girls in the US were given Joley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,559, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1968Busiest: 25 in 20092025
Joley in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20246#13,472
20235#15,188
20225#15,300
20210–
20207#12,137
20190–
20189#10,540
20177#12,709
20167#12,871
20157#13,001
201411#9,512
20137#13,145
201220#6,338
201115#7,779
201021#6,180
200925#5,535
200817#7,404
200712#9,535
200614#8,234
200514#7,886
200411#9,259
200314#7,575
200215#7,039
200118#6,062
200012#8,020
19999#9,472
19985#14,116
19975#13,719
19960–
19955#13,380
19940–
19930–
19925#13,308
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19775#9,650
19760–
19755#9,065
19748#6,257
19730–
19720–
19718#6,004
197013#4,245
196916#3,460
196810#4,488

Nicknames for Joley

Names like Joley

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Joley

Names related to Joley

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Joley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/joley, updated 20 October 2026.