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How popular is “Dolly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dolly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dolly” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dolly” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dolly” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dolly” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dolly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dolly” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 21 0.000104227 21 100%
1881 33 0.000171261 33 100%
1882 36 0.000162504 36 100%
1883 24 0.000110627 24 100%
1884 36 0.000147868 36 100%
1885 44 0.000182683 44 100%
1886 54 0.000211503 54 100%
1887 32 0.000129349 32 100%
1888 60 0.000200351 60 100%
1889 62 0.000214573 62 100%
1890 57 0.000189117 57 100%
1891 46 0.000160462 46 100%
1892 51 0.000152524 51 100%
1893 49 0.000150666 49 100%
1894 60 0.000177153 60 100%
1895 70 0.000199419 70 100%
1896 63 0.000176232 63 100%
1897 62 0.000178697 62 100%
1898 72 0.000188751 72 100%
1899 70 0.000206347 70 100%
1900 94 0.000208769 94 100%
1901 80 0.00023134 80 100%
1902 85 0.00021979 85 100%
1903 92 0.000241343 92 100%
1904 102 0.000252798 102 100%
1905 102 0.00024061 102 100%
1906 96 0.000224063 96 100%
1907 103 0.00022132 103 100%
1908 124 0.000253761 124 100%
1909 108 0.000211258 108 100%
1910 133 0.000225152 133 100%
1911 138 0.000214193 138 100%
1912 188 0.000190271 188 100%
1913 183 0.000160934 183 100%
1914 202 0.000142621 202 100%
1915 287 0.000156623 287 100%
1916 307 0.000158704 302 5 97%
1917 287 0.000143017 287 100%
1918 354 0.00016305 354 100%
1919 341 0.000161593 341 100%
1920 348 0.000153802 348 100%
1921 354 0.000151638 354 100%
1922 350 0.000152895 350 100%
1923 349 0.000151576 349 100%
1924 357 0.000149899 352 5 97%
1925 388 0.000166288 388 100%
1926 395 0.000172045 395 100%
1927 350 0.000150904 350 100%
1928 395 0.000174706 390 5 97%
1929 393 0.000179275 387 6 97%
1930 392 0.000176315 387 5 97%
1931 357 0.000169646 357 100%
1932 364 0.000172406 364 100%
1933 337 0.000168547 331 6 96%
1934 334 0.000160823 327 7 96%
1935 335 0.000160295 335 100%
1936 329 0.000158357 329 100%
1937 295 0.000138454 295 100%
1938 232 0.000104855 232 100%
1939 235 0.000106651 235 100%
1940 271 0.000117689 271 100%
1941 274 0.00011246 274 100%
1942 250 0.000091514 250 100%
1943 234 0.000082903 234 100%
1944 243 0.000090332 243 100%
1945 221 0.000083305 221 100%
1946 263 0.000082308 263 100%
1947 262 0.000072731 262 100%
1948 267 0.000077335 267 100%
1949 258 0.000074036 258 100%
1950 262 0.000074785 262 100%
1951 238 0.000064608 238 100%
1952 274 0.000072143 274 100%
1953 243 0.000063057 243 100%
1954 247 0.000062049 247 100%
1955 244 0.000060771 239 5 96%
1956 249 0.000060392 249 100%
1957 215 0.000051164 215 100%
1958 243 0.000058782 243 100%
1959 207 0.000049784 207 100%
1960 183 0.000044056 183 100%
1961 185 0.000044661 185 100%
1962 162 0.000040145 162 100%
1963 151 0.000038149 151 100%
1964 171 0.000043986 171 100%
1965 155 0.000042753 155 100%
1966 137 0.000039417 137 100%
1967 114 0.00003358 114 100%
1968 113 0.000033448 113 100%
1969 93 0.00002676 93 100%
1970 115 0.000031887 115 100%
1971 133 0.000038749 133 100%
1972 105 0.000033408 105 100%
1973 83 0.000027512 83 100%
1974 89 0.000029276 89 100%
1975 92 0.00003047 92 100%
1976 82 0.000027024 82 100%
1977 99 0.000031166 99 100%
1978 75 0.00002363 75 100%
1979 67 0.000020138 67 100%
1980 72 0.000020903 72 100%
1981 61 0.000017633 61 100%
1982 61 0.000017389 61 100%
1983 54 0.000015592 54 100%
1984 49 0.000014045 49 100%
1985 48 0.000013449 48 100%
1986 54 0.000015181 54 100%
1987 29 0.000008043 29 100%
1988 60 0.000016238 60 100%
1989 39 0.000010145 39 100%
1990 41 0.000010373 41 100%
1991 51 0.000013093 51 100%
1992 33 0.000008591 33 100%
1993 34 0.000009018 34 100%
1994 38 0.000010222 38 100%
1995 27 0.000007373 27 100%
1996 29 0.000007951 29 100%
1997 20 0.000005516 20 100%
1998 23 0.000006253 23 100%
1999 17 0.000004602 17 100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 100%
2002 16 0.00000428 16 100%
2003 10 0.00000263 10 100%
2004 15 0.000003926 15 100%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 100%
2006 19 0.000004803 19 100%
2007 17 0.000004252 17 100%
2008 18 0.000004579 18 100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 100%
2010 26 0.000007035 26 100%
2011 13 0.000003554 13 100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 100%
2013 26 0.000007132 26 100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 100%
2015 30 0.000008106 30 100%
2016 42 0.000011448 42 100%
2017 49 0.000013702 49 100%
2018 53 0.000015074 53 100%
2019 54 0.000015558 54 100%
2020 61 0.00001826 61 100%
2021 87 0.000025679 87 100%
2022 113 0.000033401 113 100%
2023 129 0.000038959 129 100%
2024 127 0.000038155 127 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Dolly:

  1. Dolli
  2. Dollicia
  3. Dollie
  4. Dollinda
  5. Dolline
  6. Dolly (this page)
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  8. Dolora
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  10. Dolores
  11. Dolorese