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Polly

Pronounced /ˈpɒli/

Rank in 2024
#2,193
Born in 2024
86
Peak year
1964 · #361
Origin
Hebrew

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 86 girls were named Polly, about 1 in every 18,758.
  • It peaked in 1964 with 688 babies, ranked #361.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 29,600 girls have been named Polly since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Polly per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.3
    Greatest
  2. 0.3
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.2
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 5,134 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Silent: 7,154 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,958 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,009 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 907 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 543 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 680 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Nickname for Mary, created by rhyming with Molly.

  • A female given name from Hebrew.
  • A common given name for a parrot.
Origin
Hebrew
Say it
/ˈpɒli/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Polly, CC BY-SA 4.0.