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Pollie vs Polo

American parents have registered 1,265 Pollies since 1880, against 599 Polos. But in 2025 it was Polo that was commoner, 9 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Pollie against Polo, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Pollie Polo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 131 years in which either name was published, Pollie for 87 years and Polo for 44 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Pollie Polo
Total US births 1,265599
Most in one year 3321
Babies in 2025 under 59
Estimated living today 240500
Median age today 7522
Peak year 19202001
Best rank 1,375th girls3,842nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked8,243rd
First recorded 18801917
Girls / boys 1,265 / 00 / 599

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pollies alive today are over 75; half the Polos are over 22. That is 53 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Pollie and Polo.