Doll
Doll was last recorded in 1968, when 6 babies were given it; 387 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Doll by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Doll mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Doll is “a diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.” Its etymology gives the sense “mad, foolish” (toll).
As a south German surname, from toll (“mad, foolish”).
Also as a German surname, spelling variant of Thiel.
As an English surname, from the adjective dull, cognate with the first German derivation. Also compare Dill.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Doll?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,434, in 1968; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1919, the peak
Doll peaked in 1919, when 15 babies were given it (8 girls, #3,545 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 6 | #6,434 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,041 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,605 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,024 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,973 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,065 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,884 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,212 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,982 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,489 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 6 | #4,558 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,780 | 5.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,829 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,318 | 6.6 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,971 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,250 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,918 | 8.7 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,865 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,479 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,745 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,743 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,238 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,347 | 7.5 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,438 | 7.4 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,435 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,736 | 6.7 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,219 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,159 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,545 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,415 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,597 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,276 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,200 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,305 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,382 | 12.8 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,880 | 17.9 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,472 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,812 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,288 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,719 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,144 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,454 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,109 | 41.1 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,378 | 29.2 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,765 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,615 | 21.3 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,465 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Doll a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 387 Americans recorded as Doll, 94% are girls and 6% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Doll: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Doll, and how old are they?
An estimated 77 Americans named Doll and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 196 people named Doll (171 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Doll rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Doll
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Doll and names like it
- Compare Doll and FlonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sDoll peaked in 1919.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Doll.
- Names starting with DMost given first.