girls:
20.4k births since 1880
#1021 (82nd percentile)
boys:
44 births since 1916
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
20.4k births since 1880
#1796 (77th percentile)
The name Dolly is the #1,796 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,394 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 76.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,021 (82.1% percentile) for all time with 20,350 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1916.
Dolly has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1916 for boys).
The name Dolly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dolly reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 48.8% percentile (ranked #310) with 321 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 351 births per million (ranked 18.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2010, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Dolly ranks #824 for girls (13.0% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 20.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dolly reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #526) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1955.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dolly".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dolly. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Dolly is pronounced as DAH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAW-lee, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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