Dolan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dolan has been given to 1,701 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1996, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Dolan, 2023
1 in 237,000
Dolan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dolan?
Dolan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,314,783 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,118 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dolan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,118 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dolan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dolans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dolan was born before 1981 — so the typical Dolan is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 15.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,244
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (270).
Is Dolan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (36)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Dolan
Dolan is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 15.8% against Dolan's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Dolan is used
Across 1910–2025, Dolan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 763,840 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Indiana1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dolan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dolan around the world
Where Dolan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1995–2021#4,478in 2021
- Canada1993–2008#2,338in 2008
- South Australia1987–1995#533in 1995
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dolan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dolan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dolan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.