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Mollie

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Mollie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 196 births. Its best rank was 79th, in 1884–1885.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1960.01% of girls
Peak year
1915738 births
Best rank
#79first in 1884
Since 1880
47,950people given the name
Babies named Mollie, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

47,950 girls have been named Mollie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 738 births.

The name has all but left use: 196 births in 2024, against 738 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1910s alone account for 12%. It has spent 135 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Mollie
1880s3,471
1890s3,609
1900s3,475
1910s5,789
1920s4,473
1930s2,773
1940s2,314
1950s2,018
1960s1,459
1970s2,131
1980s3,530
1990s4,659
2000s3,939
2010s3,273
2020s1,037

In 1915, its biggest year

Mollie was the 219th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1915 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1915.

Names that rose and fell with Mollie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.