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How popular is “Polly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Polly” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Polly” 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 “Polly” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Polly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Polly” 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 41 0.00020349 41 100%
1881 48 0.000249107 48 100%
1882 41 0.000185074 41 100%
1883 33 0.000152112 33 100%
1884 48 0.000197157 48 100%
1885 43 0.000178531 43 100%
1886 58 0.000227169 58 100%
1887 48 0.000194024 48 100%
1888 60 0.000200351 60 100%
1889 56 0.000193808 56 100%
1890 57 0.000189117 57 100%
1891 58 0.000202321 58 100%
1892 65 0.000194393 65 100%
1893 61 0.000187564 61 100%
1894 78 0.000230299 78 100%
1895 76 0.000216512 76 100%
1896 68 0.000190218 68 100%
1897 66 0.000190225 66 100%
1898 75 0.000196616 75 100%
1899 57 0.000168026 57 100%
1900 78 0.000173234 78 100%
1901 62 0.000179288 62 100%
1902 62 0.000160317 62 100%
1903 73 0.000191501 73 100%
1904 80 0.000198273 80 100%
1905 71 0.000167484 71 100%
1906 85 0.000198389 85 100%
1907 77 0.000165453 77 100%
1908 83 0.000169856 83 100%
1909 82 0.000160399 82 100%
1910 110 0.000186216 110 100%
1911 91 0.000141243 91 100%
1912 145 0.000146752 145 100%
1913 138 0.00012136 138 100%
1914 164 0.000115791 164 100%
1915 209 0.000114056 209 100%
1916 254 0.000131306 254 100%
1917 267 0.000133051 267 100%
1918 297 0.000136796 292 5 97%
1919 249 0.000117996 249 100%
1920 289 0.000127727 289 100%
1921 285 0.000122082 285 100%
1922 324 0.000141537 324 100%
1923 312 0.000135506 312 100%
1924 348 0.00014612 340 8 95%
1925 320 0.000137145 320 100%
1926 338 0.000147219 338 100%
1927 332 0.000143143 332 100%
1928 390 0.000172495 390 100%
1929 394 0.000179731 394 100%
1930 378 0.000170018 373 5 97%
1931 385 0.000182951 379 6 97%
1932 416 0.000197036 416 100%
1933 372 0.000186051 372 100%
1934 436 0.000209937 436 100%
1935 377 0.000180391 377 100%
1936 370 0.000178092 370 100%
1937 372 0.000174593 372 100%
1938 351 0.000158639 351 100%
1939 418 0.000189703 418 100%
1940 416 0.000180659 416 100%
1941 435 0.00017854 435 100%
1942 413 0.000151181 413 100%
1943 427 0.000151281 427 100%
1944 417 0.000155014 417 100%
1945 398 0.000150024 398 100%
1946 452 0.000141457 452 100%
1947 443 0.000122976 443 100%
1948 427 0.000123678 427 100%
1949 473 0.000135733 473 100%
1950 463 0.000132159 463 100%
1951 473 0.000128402 473 100%
1952 434 0.000114271 434 100%
1953 513 0.000133121 513 100%
1954 493 0.000123847 493 100%
1955 588 0.000146448 588 100%
1956 550 0.000133397 550 100%
1957 509 0.000121129 509 100%
1958 540 0.000130627 540 100%
1959 505 0.000121453 505 100%
1960 610 0.000146853 610 100%
1961 659 0.00015909 659 100%
1962 566 0.00014026 566 100%
1963 572 0.00014451 572 100%
1964 688 0.000176973 688 100%
1965 447 0.000123295 447 100%
1966 421 0.000121128 421 100%
1967 399 0.000117529 399 100%
1968 372 0.000110111 372 100%
1969 296 0.000085172 296 100%
1970 297 0.000082351 297 100%
1971 308 0.000089734 308 100%
1972 236 0.000075088 236 100%
1973 220 0.000072923 220 100%
1974 212 0.000069737 212 100%
1975 155 0.000051335 155 100%
1976 125 0.000041196 125 100%
1977 188 0.000059185 188 100%
1978 112 0.000035288 112 100%
1979 114 0.000034265 114 100%
1980 107 0.000031064 107 100%
1981 81 0.000023415 81 100%
1982 82 0.000023375 82 100%
1983 62 0.000017902 62 100%
1984 67 0.000019205 67 100%
1985 65 0.000018212 65 100%
1986 56 0.000015743 56 100%
1987 61 0.000016918 61 100%
1988 43 0.000011637 43 100%
1989 64 0.000016647 64 100%
1990 55 0.000013915 55 100%
1991 62 0.000015917 62 100%
1992 50 0.000013017 50 100%
1993 33 0.000008753 33 100%
1994 48 0.000012911 48 100%
1995 39 0.000010649 39 100%
1996 39 0.000010693 39 100%
1997 39 0.000010756 39 100%
1998 39 0.000010603 39 100%
1999 21 0.000005685 21 100%
2000 25 0.000006614 25 100%
2001 30 0.000008014 30 100%
2002 20 0.00000535 20 100%
2003 27 0.000007101 27 100%
2004 28 0.000007328 28 100%
2005 43 0.000011184 43 100%
2006 43 0.000010869 43 100%
2007 33 0.000008255 33 100%
2008 35 0.000008904 35 100%
2009 37 0.000009685 37 100%
2010 35 0.00000947 35 100%
2011 44 0.000012029 44 100%
2012 44 0.000012031 44 100%
2013 43 0.000011795 43 100%
2014 51 0.00001376 51 100%
2015 51 0.00001378 51 100%
2016 51 0.000013901 51 100%
2017 46 0.000012863 46 100%
2018 52 0.00001479 52 100%
2019 49 0.000014117 49 100%
2020 54 0.000016165 54 100%
2021 63 0.000018595 63 100%
2022 68 0.0000201 68 100%
2023 66 0.000019932 66 100%
2024 86 0.000025837 86 100%

Explore other names

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  2. Polley
  3. Polli
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  5. Pollux
  6. Polly (this page)
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  8. Pollyanna
  9. Pollyanne
  10. Pollye
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