boys:
1.7k births since 1914
#3002 (35th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1914
#6049 (22nd percentile)
The name Dolan is the #6,049 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,701 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 21.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,002 (34.5% percentile) for all time with 1,701 births since 1914.
Dolan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (first recorded for boys in 1914).
For boys, Dolan reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #747) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dolan ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 38.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dolan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dolan is pronounced as DOH-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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