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How popular is “Mollie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mollie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mollie” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mollie” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mollie” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mollie” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mollie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mollie” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 283 0.001404578 283 100%
1881 281 0.001458316 281 100%
1882 305 0.00137677 305 100%
1883 301 0.001387442 301 100%
1884 374 0.00153618 374 100%
1885 396 0.00164415 396 100%
1886 421 0.001648937 421 100%
1887 333 0.001346042 333 100%
1888 375 0.001252196 375 100%
1889 402 0.001391263 402 100%
1890 349 0.001157926 349 100%
1891 356 0.001241833 356 100%
1892 411 0.001229163 411 100%
1893 367 0.001128456 367 100%
1894 379 0.001119017 379 100%
1895 382 0.001088257 382 100%
1896 374 0.001046201 374 100%
1897 333 0.000959773 333 100%
1898 357 0.00093589 357 100%
1899 301 0.000887293 301 100%
1900 437 0.000970555 437 100%
1901 324 0.000936925 324 100%
1902 337 0.000871402 337 100%
1903 284 0.000745016 284 100%
1904 336 0.000832745 336 100%
1905 344 0.00081147 344 100%
1906 355 0.000828566 355 100%
1907 361 0.000775694 356 5 97%
1908 341 0.000697842 341 100%
1909 361 0.000706148 361 100%
1910 399 0.000675457 399 100%
1911 378 0.000586703 378 100%
1912 463 0.000468594 463 100%
1913 506 0.000444988 506 100%
1914 644 0.000454692 644 100%
1915 738 0.000402745 738 100%
1916 650 0.000336019 650 100%
1917 672 0.00033487 672 100%
1918 701 0.000322876 701 100%
1919 638 0.000302335 638 100%
1920 560 0.000247498 560 100%
1921 576 0.000246733 570 6 98%
1922 538 0.000235021 532 6 98%
1923 491 0.000213248 491 100%
1924 436 0.000183069 431 5 98%
1925 418 0.000179145 413 5 98%
1926 394 0.00017161 394 100%
1927 370 0.000159527 370 100%
1928 364 0.000160995 358 6 97%
1929 354 0.000161484 354 100%
1930 353 0.000158774 353 100%
1931 334 0.000158716 327 7 96%
1932 283 0.000134041 283 100%
1933 272 0.000136038 272 100%
1934 284 0.000136748 284 100%
1935 283 0.000135413 283 100%
1936 236 0.000113594 236 100%
1937 226 0.00010607 226 100%
1938 252 0.000113894 252 100%
1939 257 0.000116636 257 100%
1940 241 0.00010466 241 100%
1941 234 0.000096042 234 100%
1942 237 0.000086755 237 100%
1943 242 0.000085738 242 100%
1944 224 0.000083269 224 100%
1945 215 0.000081043 215 100%
1946 205 0.000064157 205 100%
1947 243 0.000067456 243 100%
1948 243 0.000070383 243 100%
1949 230 0.000066001 230 100%
1950 214 0.000061084 214 100%
1951 189 0.000051307 189 100%
1952 241 0.000063454 241 100%
1953 238 0.00006176 238 100%
1954 187 0.000046977 187 100%
1955 184 0.000045827 184 100%
1956 205 0.000049721 205 100%
1957 208 0.000049499 208 100%
1958 186 0.000044994 186 100%
1959 166 0.000039923 166 100%
1960 171 0.000041167 171 100%
1961 147 0.000035488 147 100%
1962 112 0.000027755 112 100%
1963 129 0.000032591 129 100%
1964 173 0.0000445 173 100%
1965 145 0.000039995 145 100%
1966 128 0.000036828 128 100%
1967 141 0.000041533 141 100%
1968 146 0.000043216 146 100%
1969 167 0.000048053 167 100%
1970 196 0.000054346 196 100%
1971 195 0.000056812 195 100%
1972 184 0.000058543 184 100%
1973 170 0.000056349 170 100%
1974 208 0.000068421 208 100%
1975 222 0.000073525 222 100%
1976 204 0.000067231 204 100%
1977 250 0.000078703 250 100%
1978 228 0.000071837 228 100%
1979 274 0.000082356 274 100%
1980 286 0.000083031 286 100%
1981 295 0.000085276 295 100%
1982 329 0.000093787 329 100%
1983 312 0.000090086 312 100%
1984 292 0.000083697 292 100%
1985 387 0.00010843 387 100%
1986 370 0.000104018 370 100%
1987 398 0.000110383 398 100%
1988 419 0.000113395 419 100%
1989 442 0.000114971 442 100%
1990 527 0.000133334 527 100%
1991 535 0.000137346 535 100%
1992 486 0.000126521 486 100%
1993 495 0.00013129 495 100%
1994 454 0.00012212 454 100%
1995 438 0.000119602 438 100%
1996 423 0.00011598 423 100%
1997 418 0.000115287 418 100%
1998 442 0.000120167 442 100%
1999 441 0.000119387 441 100%
2000 448 0.000118522 448 100%
2001 423 0.000112999 423 100%
2002 386 0.000103256 386 100%
2003 410 0.000107829 410 100%
2004 338 0.00008846 332 6 96%
2005 365 0.000094932 365 100%
2006 363 0.000091755 363 100%
2007 373 0.000093304 373 100%
2008 420 0.000106852 420 100%
2009 419 0.000109681 419 100%
2010 428 0.000115809 428 100%
2011 438 0.000119744 438 100%
2012 437 0.000119485 437 100%
2013 391 0.000107251 391 100%
2014 347 0.000093622 347 100%
2015 273 0.000073766 273 100%
2016 262 0.000071415 262 100%
2017 242 0.00006767 242 100%
2018 219 0.000062289 219 100%
2019 236 0.000067993 236 100%
2020 224 0.000067054 224 100%
2021 207 0.000061099 207 100%
2022 197 0.00005823 197 100%
2023 213 0.000064327 213 100%
2024 196 0.000058885 196 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Mollie:

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  2. Mollee
  3. Molleigh
  4. Molley
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  10. Mollye
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