Pollyanne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pollyanne has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1962, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Pollyanne, 1971
1 in 686,000
Pollyanne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Pollyanne?
Pollyanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1971
- 1 in 686,000
- 5 of 3,432,187 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 333,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1971
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 475,803 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pollyanne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 475,803 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pollyanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pollyannes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pollyanne was born before 1964 — so the typical Pollyanne is around 61 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 77.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 22
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 77.3% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Pollyanne 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (7)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Pollyanne
Pollyanne is not the most common spelling — Pollyanna is, with 32.7% against Pollyanne's 0.64%.
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.
Pollyanne around the world
Where Pollyanne 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 & Wales2022–2022#5,670in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pollyanne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Pollyanne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pollyanne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.