Tollie

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Tollie has been given to 606 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1927, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Tollie, 1984

1 in 436,000

Tollie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tollie over time

In 1987, Tollie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18841987

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Tollie?

Tollie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1984, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1984
1 in 436,000
8 of 3,488,451 births
Among boys only
1 in 226,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1984
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
302,252 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tollie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1984 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 302,252 children born in 1984 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tollie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tollies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tollie was born before 1930 — so the typical Tollie is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
131
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1920s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (131).

Is Tollie 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 1927 (20)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#751
1888

Spellings of Tollie

Tollie is not the most common spelling — Willie is, with 68.0% against Tollie's 0.09%.

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 Tollie is used

Across 1910–2025, Tollie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 613,793 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Kentucky1 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. Tollie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tollie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#751
1888
Peak year
1927
20 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
566
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,567
1896
Peak year
1917
9 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Tollie

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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