Jolene is a feminine

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derived from a combination of the name '' Jo'' with the

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''-lene'', common in other names in fashion during the middle of the 20th century such as

Marlene Marlene may refer to: People * Marlene (given name), including a list of people with the name * Marlene (Burmese businesswoman), Nang Kham Noung (born 1991) * Marlene (Japanese singer) (born 1960), a Filipina jazz singer active in Japan Film * Ma ...

. It came into greater use in the 1940s but increased in popularity following the release of the 1973 song '' Jolene'' by

Dolly Parton Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actress, and philanthropist, known primarily as a country music, country musician. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton's debut album ...

Variant forms

Jolene has several spelling variations: * Joelene * Joleen * Joleene * Jolene * Joliene * Joline * Jouline * Jolin * Jolleen * Jollene * Jolyn * Jolyne * Jolynn *Joleane * Jolean

Notable people

Jolene Anderson Jolene Anderson is an Australian actress and singer. From 2006 to 2008, she played the character of Erica Templeton on the drama series '' All Saints''. She is also the winner of the second series of celebrity singing competition '' It Take ...

(born 1980), Australian actress *

Jolene Blalock Jolene Blalock ( ; born March 5, 1975) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing the Vulcan first officer and science officer T'Pol on the science-fiction series '' Star Trek: Enterprise''. Her other work includes guest-st ...

(born 1975), American actress from ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' *

Jolene Brand Jolene Brand (born Jolene Marie Bufkin, July 21, 1934) is an American actress. She acted most in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in seven episodes of the Ernie Kovacs television shows. Early years Brand was from Baldwin Park, California. She g ...

(born 1934), American actress *

Jolene Henderson Jolene Nicole Henderson (born November 14, 1991) is an American, former collegiate All-American, professional All-Star, right-handed hitting softball pitcher and first baseman who is currently a softball assistant coach. Originally from Elk Gro ...

(born 1991), American softball pitcher *

Jolene Koester Jolene Koester (born 1948) is an American university administrator, economic board member, and author. She served as the 4th president of California State University, Northridge from July 2000 to December 2011, and as the interim Chancellor of t ...

, president of California State University, Northridge *

Jolene Purdy Jolene Purdy is an American actress. Purdy starred as Cherita Chen in the 2001 film ''Donnie Darko''. Among her television credits is the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Situation comedy, sitcom ''Do Not Disturb (TV series), Do Not Disturb'', which ...

(born 1983), American actress from ''

Orange Is The New Black ''Orange Is the New Black'' (sometimes abbreviated to ''OITNB'') is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir '' Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Pr ...

'' *

Jolene Unsoeld Jolene Bishoprick Unsoeld (December 3, 1931 – November 28, 2021) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A Democrat, Unsoeld represented Washington's 3rd congressiona ...

(1931–2021), American politician * Jolene Van Vugt (born 1980), Canadian motocross champion * Jolene Marie Cholock-Rotinsulu (born 1996), Puteri Indonesia Lingkungan 2019 and Miss International Indonesia 2019 *

Jolene Watanabe Jolene Watanabe (August 31, 1968 – June 22, 2019) was an American international tennis player. She competed in the Australian Open The Australian Open (stylized ΛO) is a tennis tournament organised by Tennis Australia annually at Melb ...

(1968–2019), American tennis player * Jolene Yazzie (born 1978), 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.https://www.behindthename.com/name/jolene

In popular culture

The title track of

'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 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1987 to 2004, and was transferred to the monthly manga magazine ''Ultra Jum ...

'', titled ''

Stone Ocean is the sixth main story arc of the Japanese manga series ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Set near Port St. Lucie, Florida in 2011, the story follows Jotaro Kujo's estranged daughter Jolyne Cujoh a ...

'', features a main protagonist named

Jolyne Cujoh is a fictional character in the Japanese manga series ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. The main protagonist of the series' sixth story arc, ''Stone Ocean'', Jolyne is falsely accused of murder by Dio's mo ...

. In '' Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'', Jolene is a Toad that runs the Glitz Pit, a fighting arena located in Glitzville.

References

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