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Lolly

Girls' name

Diminutive of Laura or Louise

Lolly has been given to 342 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1959, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Lolly, 2023

1 in 474,000

Lolly over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lolly: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Laura or Louise

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lolly means

Lolly is a diminutive of Laura or Louise.

Origin, language, and formation

Lolly is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Laura and Louise.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 342 girls were recorded with the name Lolly between 1916 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1959; its best national rank was #2,654 in 1948.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lolly?

Lolly 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 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lolly sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lolly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lollys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lolly was born before 1955 — so the typical Lolly is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
227
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Choose a decade

1950s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (110).

Is Lolly 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1959 (18)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,654
1948

Spellings of Lolly

Lolly is not the most common spelling — Kelly is, with 30.3% against Lolly's 0.02%.

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 Lolly is used

Across 1910–2025, Lolly was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Lolly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lolly around the world

Where Lolly 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.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2018
    #7,790
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lolly by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,654
1948
Peak year
1959
18 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
342
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lolly

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Lolly

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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