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How popular is the name Dolly?
Births per year, rank history and how many Dollies are alive today.
Dolly (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 304th in 2025 with 144 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2015, when 194 babies were given the name, the 258th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 351 in 2022 before climbing back to the 304th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Dolly is one spelling of a name also recorded as Dali and Dollie; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Dolly you are most likely to meet is around 11 years old. Half of all Dollies born in England and Wales are between 5 and 12, and there are at least 3,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Dolly - on average, only one in every 102 such rooms contains a Dolly.
How many babies are named Dolly each year?
Includes all spellings: Dolly, Dali, Dollie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Dolly spelling rank?
Where does the Dali spelling rank?
Where does the Dollie spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Dolly most popular?
Dolly peaked in 2014, when 235 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Dolly?
At least 3,100 people named Dolly in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Dolly?
Most living Dollies are between 5 and 12; the most common age is about 11.
Is Dolly becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.