Pollyanna
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · girls
- 1964 · 53 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,129since 1914
Pollyanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Pollyanna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 |
| 1975 | #2,743 | 27 |
| 1974 | #4,041 | 15 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 |
| 1972 | #3,714 | 16 |
| 1971 | #3,266 | 20 |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 |
| 1969 | #2,768 | 23 |
| 1968 | #2,360 | 27 |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 |
| 1966 | #2,147 | 30 |
| 1965 | #2,411 | 25 |
| 1964 | #1,559 | 53 |
| 1963 | #2,172 | 30 |
| 1962 | #2,741 | 20 |
| 1961 | #1,742 | 43 |
| 1960 | #2,649 | 21 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | — | |
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| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 |
| 1938 | #3,181 | 8 |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,688 | 10 |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 |
| 1929 | #2,437 | 13 |
| 1928 | #2,284 | 15 |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 |
| 1926 | #1,932 | 20 |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 |
| 1924 | #2,308 | 16 |
| 1923 | #2,465 | 14 |
| 1922 | #2,612 | 13 |
| 1921 | #1,988 | 20 |
| 1920 | #1,666 | 25 |
| 1919 | #2,264 | 15 |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 |
| 1917 | #1,708 | 21 |
| 1916 | #1,739 | 20 |
| 1915 | #2,384 | 12 |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 |
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| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Pollyanna! It came in at #3,188, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1934–1937, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Pollyanna is popular in 1961
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,600 · 1 in 35,025
Best ever in a state: #538 in Kentucky, 1964.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,600 | 5 | 1 in 35,025 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Pollyanna
- 1,851 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #6,116)
- 4,974 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #6,116)
- 2,815 spots since 2015 (#8,931 → #6,116)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1964 at #1,559 (53 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,752 girls born in 1964 were named Pollyanna (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.2% of all girls named Pollyanna (284) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 87 | #1,708 (1917) | #2,300 |
| 1920s | 155 | #1,666 (1920) | #2,409 |
| 1930s | 59 | #2,688 (1933) | #3,481 |
| 1940s | 52 | #2,737 (1940) | #4,265 |
| 1950s | 25 | #4,202 (1957) | #5,212 |
| 1960s | 284 | #1,559 (1964) | #2,439 |
| 1970s | 171 | #2,743 (1975) | #4,120 |
| 1980s | 46 | #5,209 (1982) | #8,497 |
| 1990s | 57 | #8,132 (1996) | #9,816 |
| 2000s | 41 | #10,084 (2008) | #13,613 |
| 2010s | 84 | #8,931 (2015) | #11,776 |
| 2020s | 68 | #6,116 (2025) | #9,238 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Pollyanna in 1961
Top girls' names in 1961
More about 1961
girls
2,018,495 girls got a published name in 1961; 1 in 46,942 of them was named Pollyanna, which outranked 76.9% of the 7,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,720Ruthanne44
- #1,720Scott44
- #1,720Sunday44
- #1,742Pollyanna43
- #1,742Adelina43
- #1,742Adelita43
- #1,742Agatha43
- #1,768Adria42
- #1,768Allie42
- #1,768Conni42
Tied with 25 names at #1,742; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.