It came into greater use in the 1940s but increased in popularity following the release of the 1973 song Jolene by Dolly Parton.
[3] 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.
[4] 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.