Mollie
Molly is a diminutive of the feminine name Mary that, like other English hypocorisms in use since the Middle Ages, substituted l for r. Molly evolved from the English diminutive Mally. English surnames such as Moll, Mollett, and Mollison are derived from Molly. Molly has also been used as a diminutive of Margaret and Martha since the 1700s and as an independent name since at least 1720.
Meaning & Origin of Mollie
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Molly is a diminutive of the feminine name Mary that, like other English hypocorisms in use since the Middle Ages, substituted l for r. Molly evolved from the English diminutive Mally. English surnames such as Moll, Mollett, and Mollison are derived from Molly. Molly has also been used as a diminutive of Margaret and Martha since the 1700s and as an independent name since at least 1720.
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The Story of Mollie
Mollie first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1880, with 283 babies given the name that year. Its peak popularity came in 1915, when 738 Mollies were born — ranking #219 that year. As of 2026, Mollie ranks #1,217 for baby girls with 193 births, gradually falling (-12%). In total, more than 48K Mollies have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 1880s through the 2020s.
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Notable people named Mollie
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- Molly Adair (1905–1990), English actress
- Molly Aguirre (born 1984), American snowboarder
- Molly Antopol (born 1978), American fiction and nonfiction writer
- Molly Applebaum (born 1930), Polish-Canadian holocaust survivor and diarist
- Molly Musiime Asiimwe (born 1962), Ugandan politician
- Mollie Arline Kirkland Bailey (c. 1844–1918), American circus musician, singer, wartime nurse and alleged Confederate spy
- Molly Bair (born 1997), American model
- Molly Ball , American political journalist and writer
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Names that sound like Mollie
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About the name Mollie
Mollie is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1880 and has accumulated 48K births in the dataset. Mollie's peak popularity came in 1915 when it ranked #79. Use the chart and map above to compare Mollie's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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