Baby name

Dolly

Girl

Comeback name

1926 was its best year: 395 births, or 1 baby in 5,812. The curve bottomed out around 2002 (about 10 births a year), then turned around. Latest ranking, 2025: No. 1777.

20,592births since 1880

1920sgeneration

No. 332rank at its peak, in 1926

Where babies named Dolly are born

1926

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The darker the blue, the more common Dolly is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Dolly is most common in West Virginia (5.7 times), Kentucky (2.7) and Virginia (2.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

One letter apart

Holly 205,304
Molly 176,127
Polly 29,684

Names from the same era

Corrine · Lenore · Dorthy · Rhoda · John · Ruthie

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