How Many People Are Named Mollie?

23,390

people named Mollie are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 14,612 people in the US has this name

Based on 48,210 babies named Mollie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,483

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#791

See the top 100

Peak Year

1915

738 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: MAHL-ee
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of MOLLY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Mollie in English. Counting Mollie and these spellings together, about 183,809 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Mollie in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Mollie alive today is about 37 years old, and 43% are under 30. Half of them were between 19 and 51 in 2025.

Under 30 10,099
43.2%
30 to 59 8,830
37.8%
60 and over 4,460
19.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Mollie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1915, to 738 babies. In 2025, 212 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Mollie never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #79, in 1884 to 1885, and it was in the top 100 in 9 years between 1880 and 1889. In 2025 it ranked #1,116.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,116
Best rank#79 (1884 to 1885)
Years in the top 1009 (1880 to 1889)
Rank in its biggest decade#224 in the 1910s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Mollie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Mollie were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,686 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Mollie was given 2.5 times as often in Kentucky, 2.3 times in Mississippi and 2.1 times in Alabama.

Texas 1,686
California 1,334
Ohio 1,245
New York 1,031
North Carolina 990
Pennsylvania 963
Georgia 891
Illinois 803
Kentucky 740
Tennessee 722
Alabama 714
Michigan 674
Florida 660
Virginia 587
Missouri 569
Louisiana 529
Mississippi 519
Indiana 507
Minnesota 487
Massachusetts 427
Wisconsin 380
Maryland 346
Washington 342
Colorado 342
Iowa 330
Arkansas 281
South Carolina 280
Oklahoma 275
New Jersey 261
Oregon 204
Kansas 182
Arizona 120
Utah 112
West Virginia 109
Nebraska 108
Connecticut 72
New Hampshire 23
Rhode Island 20
Idaho 10
South Dakota 10
Montana 7
Maine 6
North Dakota 5
Nevada 5
District of Columbia 5
New Mexico 3

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