Polly

Where Polly comes from

Nickname for Mary, created by rhyming with Molly.
— Wiktionary's entry for Polly
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #240 among girls — 41 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #222
    48 babies named Polly — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1930
    Polly Bergen born
    American actress
  4. 1937
    Polly Holliday born
    American actress
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,039.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Polly Bergen · American actress, 1930–2014
  • Polly Holliday · American actress, 1937–2025
  • Polly Walker · British actress, born 1966
  • Polly Samson · English novelist, lyricist and journalist, born 1962
  • Polly Moran · Actress, vaudevillian, 1883–1952

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.