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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Polly

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#2,318

down −125 places

2025 births

79

down −8 births

All-time births

29,684

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1964
688 births
Best rank
#225
in 1881
First recorded
1880
#245 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1947
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1964688#361Peak
  2. 1961659#376
  3. 1960610#384
  4. 1955588#360
  5. 1963572#402

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #225 in 1881 · peak births 688 in 1964

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

24 boys · 29,684 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Polly has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.