Dollie

Where Dollie comes from

Dollie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1858
    Dollie Radford born
    British writer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #180 among girls — 69 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #151
    90 babies named Dollie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,669.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dollie Radford · British writer, 1858–1920
  • Dollie Lowther Robinson · American labor unionist, died 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.