Dolly
Dolly is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 127 births. Its best rank was 277th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1270.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1926395 births
- Best rank
- #277in 1881
- Since 1880
- 20,479people given the name
The story in the numbers
20,479 girls have been named Dolly in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 395 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dolly | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 402 | |
| 1890s | 600 | |
| 1900s | 986 | |
| 1910s | 2,415 | |
| 1920s | 3,663 | |
| 1930s | 3,192 | |
| 1940s | 2,543 | |
| 1950s | 2,417 | |
| 1960s | 1,464 | |
| 1970s | 940 | |
| 1980s | 527 | |
| 1990s | 313 | |
| 2000s | 164 | |
| 2010s | 336 | |
| 2020s | 517 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Dolly was the 332nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1926 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Dolly
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosiepeak 1927
- Lenorapeak 1924
- Rowenapeak 1917
- Margaretpeak 1921
- Marypeak 1921
- Janniepeak 1924
- Rosettapeak 1948
- Lavadapeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.