Pollyanna

Where Pollyanna comes from

From Polly + Anna.
— Wiktionary's entry for Pollyanna
  • Anna
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,188 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Peak, #1,559
    53 babies named Pollyanna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,411.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew derived from Polly and Anna; rare in the real world.
Namesakes

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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.