girls:
47.8k births since 1880
#593 (90th percentile)
boys:
46 births since 1907
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
47.8k births since 1880
#1107 (86th percentile)
The name Mollie is the #1,107 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47,798 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #593 (89.6% percentile) for all time with 47,752 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1907.
Mollie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1907 for boys).
The name Mollie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mollie reached its peak popularity in 1885, achieving the 69.9% percentile (ranked #76) with 2,790 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 2,899 births per million (ranked 63.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mollie ranks #740 for girls (21.9% percentile) with 121 births per million, which is 4.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mollie reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #518) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mollie".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Molly. View all variations of Molly.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Mollie", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 15 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Molly" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Molly..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mollie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Mollie is pronounced as MAH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MOH-lee, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA1 L IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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