Dolly

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Meaning

Dolly is a given name and nickname, often a diminutive of the English personal names Dorothy and Dolores. Sometimes it is given to people surnamed "Gray", owing to the music hall song "Goodbye, Dolly Gray"; this particularly commonly occurs amongst sailors.

From Wikipedia

Dolly first appears in the data in 1996 and has been recorded in 21 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2015 with 194 babies (rank #258 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Dolly

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Dolly yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

1,091
Total babies (all years)
21
Years in the data
194
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19967#2,152
19974#3,338
19983#4,124
19997#2,257
20005#2,868
20017#2,282
20028#2,162
20035#3,219
200414#1,563
200520#1,210
20068#2,572
200716#1,595
200827#1,107
200943#809
201056#665
201157#684
201293#479
2013171#276
2014187#260
2015194#258
2016159#310