Polly

girls:

29.5k births since 1880

#829 (86th percentile)

boys:

24 births since 1918

#4562 (0th percentile)

overall:

29.5k births since 1880

#1486 (81st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Polly is the #1,486 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,535 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #829 (85.5% percentile) for all time with 29,511 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,562 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1918.

Polly has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1918 for boys).

The name Polly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.

For girls, Polly reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 56.1% percentile (ranked #345) with 351 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 486 births per million (ranked 19.0% percentile). Despite a peak around 2009, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Polly ranks #886 for girls (6.4% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 7.8% of its peak share of births.

For boys, Polly reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #551) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1931.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Polly".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
29,511
Peak Births
688
Peak Year
1964
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
56.1%
Current Percentile
6.4%
Peak Rank
#345
Current Rank
#886
Female statistics
Total Births
24
Peak Births
8
Peak Year
1924
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
0.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#551
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Polly

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Polly. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 88.1% confident that Polly is pronounced as PAH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PAW-lee, at 11.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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88.1%
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11.9%
PAH-lee (2 syllables)
Verified
88.1% confidence
P AA1 L IY0
PAW-lee (2 syllables)
11.9% confidence
P AO1 L IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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 P 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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