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Dollye vs Doloris

American parents have registered 1,885 Dolorises since 1880, against 257 Dollyes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dollye against Doloris, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dollye Doloris

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 64 years in which either name was published, Doloris for 58 years and Dollye for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dollye Doloris
Total US births 2571,885
Most in one year 13107
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 50500
Median age today 8281
Peak year 19251932
Best rank 2,617th girls646th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18961909
Girls / boys 257 / 01,885 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dollye and Doloris.