Pollie
Pollie was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 1,265 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pollie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pollie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pollie is “a female given name.”
Less common spelling of Polly.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pollie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,681, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1920, the peak
Pollie peaked in 1920, when 33 girls were given it, #1,397 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #12,681 | 2.9 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,844 | 3.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,385 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,216 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,051 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,668 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,414 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,320 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,801 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,079 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 7 | #5,430 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,795 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,645 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,493 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,598 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,897 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,895 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,068 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,612 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,133 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,131 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,646 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,845 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,078 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,371 | 11.3 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,531 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,154 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,868 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 17 | #2,017 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,940 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,548 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,077 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,858 | 17.3 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,410 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,101 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,706 | 20.8 |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,561 | 23.4 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,545 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,660 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,941 | 17.0 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,726 | 20.8 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,925 | 17.6 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,582 | 23.6 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,100 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,801 | 19.2 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,886 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,884 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,266 | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,397 | 27.5 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,842 | 18.6 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,642 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,595 | 22.2 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,375 | 27.8 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,610 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,374 | 28.9 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,661 | 22.4 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,286 | 32.3 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,102 | 40.6 |
| 1910 | 18 | #1,056 | 45.4 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,731 | 23.0 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,125 | 41.9 |
| 1907 | 24 | #771 | 75.3 |
| 1906 | 15 | #997 | 50.8 |
| 1905 | 18 | #894 | 61.7 |
| 1904 | 20 | #829 | 72.6 |
| 1903 | 19 | #805 | 72.5 |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,061 | 45.4 |
| 1901 | 21 | #720 | 87.7 |
| 1900 | 19 | #879 | 63.4 |
| 1899 | 13 | #929 | 55.8 |
| 1898 | 19 | #785 | 73.4 |
| 1897 | 23 | #656 | 98.2 |
| 1896 | 12 | #990 | 50.4 |
| 1895 | 16 | #812 | 68.5 |
| 1894 | 16 | #776 | 71.8 |
| 1893 | 16 | #760 | 75.2 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,417 | 28.3 |
| 1891 | 16 | #691 | 86.3 |
| 1890 | 15 | #715 | 78.8 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,245 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 13 | #747 | 72.8 |
| 1887 | 10 | #782 | 68.5 |
| 1886 | 9 | #816 | 62.3 |
| 1885 | 13 | #622 | 97.7 |
| 1884 | 12 | #636 | 93.0 |
| 1883 | 8 | #746 | 71.2 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,005 | 46.4 |
| 1881 | 5 | #920 | 54.4 |
| 1880 | 5 | #919 | 54.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pollie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pollie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pollie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pollie, and how old are they?
An estimated 229 Americans named Pollie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (18% of everyone recorded); the median is 76 years old and half are between 67 and 84. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 280 people named Pollie (273 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 306 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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 Pollie?
Pollie is a less common spelling of Polly: SSA has recorded 1,265 Pollie and 29,708 Polly since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 30,973 babies since 1880, Pollie is the second most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 79 babies recorded by SSA was a Pollie (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 Pollie
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 Pollie and names like it
- Compare Pollie and PollyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPollie peaked in 1920.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pollie since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Pollie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Pollie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.