Dolly Girl
How popular is Dolly?
#1,777 girl name in 2025
113 baby girls were named Dolly in the US in 2025, making it the 1777th most popular girl name.
Dolly popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,777 for girls (▼ 147 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 113 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+277% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,583 in 2015, #2,712 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1926 (395 girls) |
| Highest rank | #277 in 1881 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Dolly counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Dolly family of names ranked #1,353 for girls in 2025 (#1,281 the year before), with 126 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dolly | 113 | 90% |
| Dollie | 13 | 10% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Dolly is most popular
Babies named Dolly per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.2 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.2 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Ohio: 0.1 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- Oklahoma: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (56 girls)
Dolly by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 402 | #277 |
| 1890s | 600 | #337 |
| 1900s | 986 | #316 |
| 1910s | 2,415 | #331 |
| 1920s | 3,663 | #329 |
| 1930s | 3,192 | #331 |
| 1940s | 2,543 | #416 |
| 1950s | 2,417 | #496 |
| 1960s | 1,464 | #755 |
| 1970s | 940 | #957 |
| 1980s | 527 | #1,605 |
| 1990s | 313 | #2,443 |
| 2000s | 164 | #6,202 |
| 2010s | 336 | #3,002 |
| 2020s | 630 | #1,614 |
Girl names about as popular as Dolly
Questions
- Is Dolly a boy or girl name?
- Dolly is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Dolly were girls.
- How popular is the name Dolly?
- 113 baby girls were named Dolly in the US in 2025, making it the 1777th most popular girl name.
- When was Dolly most popular?
- Dolly peaked in 1926, when 395 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #277 in 1881.
- How many people are named Dolly?
- 20,636 babies have been named Dolly in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,676 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 68.
- Where is Dolly most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Dolly was most common in Mississippi, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.