How rare is the name Mollie?

21,829 people in the United States have the first name Mollie, about 1 in 13,836. It ranks #1,516 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MOLLIE

#1,516

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
21,829
About
1 in 13,836
This common or more
75.3%
Who bears it

Of the 21,829 people named Mollie, 87.4% reported their origin as White, 5% as Black and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mollie peaked in 1915, when 738 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1915
Births that year
738
In 2025*
212 ▼71%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 48,210 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.

Mollie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #142. The largest share of babies named Mollie, 26.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1423,471
1890s#1813,609
1900s#2343,480
1910s#3915,789
1920s#5814,501
1930s#7142,780
1940s#9092,314
1950s#1,1622,018
1960s#1,4621,459
1970s#1,2672,131
1980s#1,0263,530
1990s#9914,659
2000s#1,2673,945
2010s#1,5663,274
2020s#2,1791,250
Before 190115.6%
Greatest Generation 1901–2726.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4510.1%
Baby boom 1946–647.6%
Generation X 1965–806.5%
Millennials 1981–9613.7%
Generation Z 1997–1213.6%
2013 and later6.7%

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 Mollie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mollie has been most common in Kentucky (2.7×), Mississippi (2.6×), and Alabama (2.3×), and least common in New Mexico (0.2×).

32,695 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.

Either side of Mollie

#1,514 Hallie · 21,841#1,515 Camilla · 21,840#1,517 Trudy · 21,824#1,518 Alba · 21,789

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mollie, most common first.

#8,157 Molli · 1,792#15,522 Mollee · 740#30,742 Mollye · 282

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