How rare is the name Dollie?

4,004 people in the United States have the first name Dollie, about 1 in 75,432. It ranks #4,592 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

DOLLIE

#4,592

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,004
About
1 in 75,432
This common or more
84.3%
Who bears it

Of the 4,004 people named Dollie, 57.7% reported their origin as White, 35.1% as Black and 2.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dollie peaked in 1921, when 459 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1921
Births that year
459
In 2025*
13 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 19,298 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dollie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #305. The largest share of babies named Dollie, 42.7%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#3051,063
1890s#3251,546
1900s#3461,913
1910s#5323,317
1920s#6303,906
1930s#7082,839
1940s#9612,034
1950s#1,4391,341
1960s#2,284626
1970s#3,969314
1980s#6,500194
1990s#15,66873
2000s#47,6555
2010s#23,65953
2020s#14,16474
Before 190114.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–2742.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4524.9%
Baby boom 1946–6412.9%
Generation X 1965–803%
Millennials 1981–961.1%
Generation Z 1997–120.2%
2013 and later0.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dollie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dollie has been most common in West Virginia (5.5×), Arkansas (4.9×), and Mississippi (4.2×), and least common in California (0.13×).

12,109 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Dollie

1 other first name also has 4,004 people.

#4,592 Geovanni · 4,004

Either side of Dollie

#4,590 Jamarcus · 4,008#4,590 Prakash · 4,008#4,592 Geovanni · 4,004#4,594 Mechelle · 4,003

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