Mollie

What Mollie means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #242 vs #1,113 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mollie?

US: Falling: down from #989 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #105 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 283 girls got the name (#81 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 7,581 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,319 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 389 baby girls in Scotland 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), LA (0.49 per 1,000 girls), KY (0.46 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Mollie is #1113 in the US and #242 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 Mollie were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Millie3,353 US · 1,080 E&W
• Mylie58 US · 27 E&W
• Maylie57 US · 3 E&W
• Mallie54 US · 3 E&W
• Maelie43 US · 3 E&W
• Mellie15 US
• Malie10 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 Mollie

Girls

• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Samantha#151“listener”^*
• Katherine#186Variant of Catherine, possibly meaning “each of the two”^*
• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*
• Alexandra#237“to defend + man”^*
• Ashley#164“ash tree + wood, clearing”^*

For a brother

• Jordan#131Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #59 in 2015, #131 in 2025
• Joel#219Editor’s note Down from #158 in 2015 to #219 in 2025 in the US
• Anthony#46“flower”^*
• Marcus#258Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 5,996 babies; 1,341 in 2025
• Jonathan#89“God has given”^*
• Kevin#221“dear birth/person”^*

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 Mollie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.