For those who don't know, jolie means pretty in french, and is a common woman's name.

I don't think I've heard heard of someone named Jolie.

According to data from INSEE (France's Census Bureau equivalent), since 1925, only 6 babies were named Jolie in 2011 and then 5 more in 2018.

There's a Joline which you'd pronounce pretty much like jolie as the n is very weak, but it's barely more popular.

Anyway, jolie does mean pretty, but it's not really a name (11~0 at this scale).

I'm pretty sure you've heard of at least one person named Jolie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie - but of course she's not French, I guess her parents picked the name because it sounded nice, and she thought it sounded so nice that she picked it as her stage name...

I suppose the parent commenter mistook Jolie for Julie which is indeed a common French (and not only) name.

Her mother had French-Canadian roots.

Yeah, but that's a last name. I was talking about first names which is usually what people mean when they say a common name.

I'm guessing the other commenters are right, GP probably meant "Julie".

Angelina Jolie is a stage name. She was born Angelina Jolie Voight. Jolie is a middle name there.

Yeah Julie/juliette are common as a first name but do not share etymology (comes from julius).

A more common last name is Joly which is old form from joli, the masculine form of jolie.

It does mean pretty but it is not a common french name.

on the basis that there aren’t many kids named Pretty by their English speaker parents, surely it’s more likely that a non-French speaker would name their kid Jolie

I knew a woman whose last name was Jolie... Her parents named her Très ("très jolie" means very pretty).