Entry № 4982 · French origin

Jolie Jolie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Pretty, cheerful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "pretty, cheerful".

Jolie is simply the French word for pretty — a light, cheerful name that says exactly what it means.

Widely recognised through the actress Angelina Jolie (for whom it is a surname), the name reads as glamorous and contemporary, while resting on one of the sweetest little words in French.

Pretty — a bright scrap of French.

The name in its native script.

Jolie
Transliteration
Jolie
Pronunciation
/ ʒoʊˈliː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jolie stands.

Jolie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jolies before her.

Real people
Angelina Jolie
American actress (the surname).
born 1975
In fiction

Names connected to Jolie.

The number behind Jolie.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jolie reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.