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Pollie

The girl's name Pollie has been in the national records since 1880, with 1,265 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1987. About 240 Pollies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Pollie

By the numbers

Total US births
1,265
Estimated living today
240
Median age today
75
Peak year
1920
Best rank
1,375th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1880

How old the living Pollies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,265 babies given the name since 1880, about 240 are alive — 19 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 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 the name comes from

Less common spelling of Polly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Pollie is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pollie is most concentrated in Kentucky (16.7×), North Carolina (7.7×).

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

Names of 1920

The most popular girls’ names the year Pollie peaked:

All the names of 1920

Pollie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Pollie 58 2,689th
Belgium girls Pollie 53 653rd

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.

Pollie: rank by region

In 2025, Pollie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Pollie 391 13

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Pollie appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (326th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Related names

Pollie against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.