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Dollie

Dollie is a girl's name that peaked in 1921, when it was the 305th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 4,200 Dollies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Dollie boys named Dollie

By the numbers

Total US births
19,298
Estimated living today
4,200
Median age today
74
Peak year
1921
Best rank
305th
Rank in 2025
7,885th
First recorded
1880
Girls / boys
19,237 / 61

How old the living Dollies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 19,298 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,200 are alive — 22 in every hundred. Roughly 130 of them are children and 3,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Dollie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Dollie is most concentrated in West Virginia (5.6×), Arkansas (4.9×), Mississippi (4.2×), Alabama (4.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1921

The most popular girls’ names the year Dollie peaked:

All the names of 1921

Dollie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Dollie 629 676th
Ireland girls Dollie 6 905th
Scotland girls Dollie 3 780th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Dollie against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.