Jolene (given name)
Jolene is a feminine given name derived from a combination of the name Jo with the suffix -lene, common in other names in fashion during the middle of the 20th century such as Marlene. It came into greater use in the 1940s but increased in popularity following the release of the 1973 song Jolene by Dolly Parton.
Variant forms
Jolene has several spelling variations:- Joelene
- Joleen
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- Joliene
- Joline
- Jouline
- Jolin
- Jolleen
- Jollene
- Jolyn
- Jolyne
- Jolynn
- Joleane
- Jolean
Notable people
- Jolene Anderson, Australian actress
- Jolene Blalock, American actress from Star Trek: Enterprise
- Jolene Brand, American actress
- Jolene Henderson, American softball pitcher
- Jolene Koester, president of California State University, Northridge
- Jolene Purdy, American actress from Orange Is The New Black
- Jolene Unsoeld, American politician
- Jolene Van Vugt, Canadian motocross champion
- Jolene Marie Cholock-Rotinsulu, Puteri Indonesia Lingkungan 2019 and Miss International Indonesia 2019
- Jolene Watanabe, American tennis player
- Jolene Yazzie, American graphic designer
Usage
Jolene ranks 624 out of 4275 for females of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census. The name has been in use in the United States since at least the late 1920s and ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn American girls between 1928 and 1993 and again between 2010 and 2022.In popular culture
The title track of Dolly Parton's 1973 album, "Jolene", is about the protagonist begging a beautiful woman named Jolene to not take her husband.The sixth story arc of the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, titled Stone Ocean, features a main protagonist named Jolyne Cujoh.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Jolene is a Toad that runs the Glitz Pit, a fighting arena located in Glitzville.