Doll

Where Doll comes from

* As a south German surname, from toll (“mad, foolish”). * Also as a German surname, spelling variant of Thiel. * As an English surname, from the adjective dull, cognate with the first German derivation. Also compare Dill.
— Wiktionary's entry for Doll
Along the way
  1. 1895
    First appearance
    #1,426 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1905
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1905
    Peak, #1,093
    12 babies named Doll — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1907
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,061.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
Namesakes

No widely known Doll turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.