Dolly

What Dolly means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Dolly yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1926, with 395 babies; 113 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Dolly?

US: Rising: up from #4584 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #258 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1886, when 54 girls got the name (#283 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 14,224 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,759 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MS (0.56 per 1,000 girls), UT (0.29 per 1,000 girls), TN (0.25 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Dolly is #1777 in the US and #304 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Dolly were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Tilly302 US · 264 E&W
• Della533 US · 31 E&W
• Tully21 US · 11 E&W
• Dally28 US
• Daily18 US
• Tally13 US
• Dilly0 US · 11 E&W
• Daley11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Dolly

Girls

• Stevie#203Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #978 in 2015, #203 in 2025
• Blair#169“field, plain”^*
• Sylvia#300“forest”^*
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Scottie#126Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,533 in 2015, #126 in 2025

For a brother

• Wesley#52“west + wood, clearing”^*
• Arthur#87possibly “bear”^*
• Warren#240“river, water”^*
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Walter#251“ruler + army, host”^*
• Leon#138“lion”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Dolly’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.