Dolan
Dolan is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 199636 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1914
- 1,701people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,701 boys have been named Dolan in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 36 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 36 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1981, and the 2000s alone account for 16%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dolan | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 49 | |
| 1920s | 118 | |
| 1930s | 155 | |
| 1940s | 135 | |
| 1950s | 126 | |
| 1960s | 114 | |
| 1970s | 137 | |
| 1980s | 106 | |
| 1990s | 268 | |
| 2000s | 270 | |
| 2010s | 182 | |
| 2020s | 41 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Dolan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Dolan
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Delfinopeak 1999
- Serafinpeak 1993
- Bernabepeak 1993
- Paulinopeak 1995
- Corneliopeak 1989
- Avelinopeak 1999
- Reyespeak 1999
- Lauropeak 2000
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.