Given name & surname
Dollie
“a gift of God”
Dollie is a variant of Dorothy. One Greek interpretation is “a gift of God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dollie is a variant of Dorothy. One Greek interpretation is “a gift of God.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Dollie is a variant of Dorothy. An origin associated with Dorothy is Greek.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dollie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 19,298
- 61 boys · 19,237 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 459 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #7,994 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +103%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 7,994 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 454 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,004 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dollie’s family of names
Dollie has a related form in Dorothy. In Greek usage, Dollie as a surname is a transliteration of Ντόλη.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dollie
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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