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by Zababa 1855 days ago
> Jolie is a common woman name

Where? It's not even on the INSEE tool https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3532172, according to their "Fichier des prénoms" (https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2540004), there are currently 39 persons named "Jolie" in France. This is not to dismiss the rest of what you said, I'm just curious as to where "Jolie" is a common woman name.

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Well, I had never really researched this, but I'm from Quebec, and I know 3 Jolie. Maybe it's more prevalent there, or maybe I happen to know a coincidentally large number of them. If the latter, I guess that is a good learning experience for how your own life experience can easily bias you in your opinions and understanding of some things.
I was curious about this so I searched around a bit and found the data for girls names from 1980 to 2020 [1]. I've found 269 people with first name containing "Jolie". Then I took the census data [1], found that 45% of Quebec females are under 40. So extrapolating from the first number, I find 524 females with Jolie in their names in Quebec.

That means 1 in 7915 female in Quebec has Jolie in her name, compared to around 1 in 1 million for France. That explains (in part) how you know 3 and I don't know any I think.

[1]: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/banque-de-pre...

[2]: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/pr...

Interesting, thanks for looking it up. I quite like the name personally, though it still seems I have some chance in my sample, since I do not know 7915 woman, so to know 3 Jolie still seems a little lucky.