Mollie

Where Mollie comes from

Mollie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #81 among girls — 283 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Mollie Faustman born
    Swedish writer and artist
  3. 1885
    Peak, #79
    396 babies named Mollie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1951
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #630.
  5. 2004
    Mollie O'Callaghan born
    Australian swimmer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mollie O'Callaghan · Australian swimmer, born 2004
  • Mollie Faustman · Swedish writer and artist, 1883–1966
  • Mollie McConnell · Film actress, 1865–1920
  • Mollie Kyle · Osage woman, 1886–1937
  • Mollie King · American actress, 1895–1981

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.