Molley
Molley was last recorded in 2012, when 10 babies were given it; 231 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Molley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Molley?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,998, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1993, the peak
Molley peaked in 1993, when 13 girls were given it, #6,909 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #10,998 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,350 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,991 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,743 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,424 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,584 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,265 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,329 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,033 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,274 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8 | #11,705 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,967 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,262 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,574 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,802 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,926 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,287 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,349 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,909 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,281 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,386 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,844 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,827 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,619 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,142 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,828 | 3.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,636 | 4.0 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,152 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Molley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Molley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Molley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Molley, and how old are they?
An estimated 215 Americans named Molley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 365 people named Molley (340 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 217 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).
How common is the spelling Molley?
Molley is a less common spelling of Molly: SSA has recorded 231 Molley and 176,487 Molly since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 228,070 babies since 1880, Molley is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,822 babies recorded by SSA was a Molley (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Molley
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 Molley and names like it
- Compare Molley and MollyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMolley peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Molley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Molley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.