Lolly
Lolly was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 342 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lolly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lolly mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lolly is “a diminutive of the female given names Laura and Louise.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lolly?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,905, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1959, the peak
Lolly peaked in 1959, when 18 girls were given it, #2,821 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #12,905 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,815 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,741 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,854 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,131 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,756 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,883 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,713 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,018 | 2.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,910 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | #8,113 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,378 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,783 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,271 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,598 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,705 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,064 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,821 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,739 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,405 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,430 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,937 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,964 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,380 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,869 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,851 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,757 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,514 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,654 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,990 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,843 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,864 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,911 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,023 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,112 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,137 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,072 | 8.2 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,581 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,216 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,228 | 4.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,836 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lolly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lolly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lolly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lolly, and how old are they?
An estimated 248 Americans named Lolly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 51 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 426 people named Lolly (413 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 99,586 babies since 1880, Lolly is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,154 babies recorded by SSA was a Lolly (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Lolly and names like it
- Compare Lolly and LolaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLolly peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lolly since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Lolly.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lolly alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.