Molli
Molli was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,651 among girls’ names; 1,989 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,940 Americans named Molli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 17 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Molli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Molli?
#10,651 among girls’ names, 2025
Molli fell from #4,369 in 2015 to #10,651 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 5.6 per million.
63 babies in 2014, the peak
Molli peaked in 2014, when 63 girls were given it, #2,767 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,651 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,481 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,812 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,359 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,846 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,539 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,229 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,311 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,719 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,945 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,369 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,767 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,354 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,075 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,253 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,238 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 54 | #3,152 | 29.4 |
| 2008 | 54 | #3,148 | 28.6 |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,040 | 30.2 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,971 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,301 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,912 | 30.0 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,659 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,046 | 26.7 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,347 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,883 | 27.5 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,838 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,827 | 26.6 |
| 1997 | 57 | #2,351 | 32.7 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,610 | 27.4 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,503 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,608 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,432 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,333 | 30.4 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,372 | 28.8 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,451 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,792 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,682 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,950 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 32 | #2,951 | 18.7 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,941 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,940 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,903 | 12.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,495 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,954 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,448 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,357 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,595 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,424 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,622 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,051 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,919 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,425 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,830 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,061 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,965 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,631 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,483 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,859 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,319 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,632 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,271 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,364 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,227 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,019 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,020 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,112 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,646 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,145 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,110 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Molli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Molli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Molli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Molli, and how old are they?
1,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,989 Americans ever recorded as Molli. The median Molli alive today is 27 years old; half are between 17 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,792 people named Molli (1,788 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,881 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 49 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 198 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 593 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 805 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 292 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Molli?
Molli is a less common spelling of Molly: SSA has recorded 1,989 Molli and 176,487 Molly since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 228,070 babies since 1880, Molli is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,822 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
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 Molli
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 Molli and names like it
- Compare Molli and MollyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMolli peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Molli since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Molli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Molli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.