Polly

What Polly means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #204 vs #2,298 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Polly?

US: Rising: up from #3211 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #236 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1881, when 48 girls got the name (#222 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 20,345 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,047 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,556 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 NC (0.11 per 1,000 girls), OH (0.11 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.06 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Polly is #2298 in the US and #204 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 Polly were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Pola10 US · 40 E&W
• Pella0 US · 3 E&W

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 Polly

Girls

• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Davina#749Feminine form of David, meaning “beloved”^*
• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Arielle#485Variant of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*

For a brother

• Raphael#394“God cures/has healed”^*
• Reuben#883Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #29 vs #883 in 2025
• Ira#819“watchful”^*
• Amos#730“to carry; a burden”^*
• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Polly’s. Rank is US 2025.