Polly
Polly is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 86 births. Its best rank was 225th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 860.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1964688 births
- Best rank
- #225in 1881
- Since 1880
- 29,600people given the name
The story in the numbers
29,600 girls have been named Polly in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 688 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 17%. It has spent 97 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Polly | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 476 | |
| 1890s | 661 | |
| 1900s | 753 | |
| 1910s | 1,919 | |
| 1920s | 3,324 | |
| 1930s | 3,864 | |
| 1940s | 4,301 | |
| 1950s | 5,068 | |
| 1960s | 5,030 | |
| 1970s | 1,967 | |
| 1980s | 688 | |
| 1990s | 425 | |
| 2000s | 321 | |
| 2010s | 466 | |
| 2020s | 337 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Polly was the 361st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Polly
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Annettapeak 1941
- Kittypeak 1947
- Ellenpeak 1951
- Pattiepeak 1958
- Myrapeak 1958
- Donapeak 1954
- Celestinepeak 1952
- Rosettapeak 1948
Other spellings in the data
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.