Lollie

Where Lollie comes from

The dictionaries list Lollie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Laura — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1892
    Peak, #540
    26 babies named Lollie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,023.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Laura.
Namesakes

No widely known Lollie turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.