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Pollyanna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,572 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,572 in 1964; #6,273 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pollyanna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,273 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #1,572.
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Pollyanna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,572 in 1964 · most girls in one year: 53 (1964).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Pollyanna, making it the 6,273rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,047 places from #8,320 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 13 girls named Pollyanna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,572, reached in 1964. That year also had the most girls given the name: 53. For comparison, it was #9,357 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pollyanna in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 1,129 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 284 babies named Pollyanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 100 US girls were named Pollyanna; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,273 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,320 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,968 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,022 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,138 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,884 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,171 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,238 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,477 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,613 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,357 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,721 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,744 | — | — |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,901 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,999 | — | — |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,612 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,780 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,628 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,096 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,287 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,456 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,556 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,119 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,063 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,296 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,663 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,393 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,446 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,022 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,352 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,688 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,007 | — | — |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,447 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,778 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,226 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,018 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,770 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,720 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,918 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,843 | — | — |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,341 | — | — |
| 1970 | 23 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 1966 | 30 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1964 | 53 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,203 | — | — |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,790 | — | — |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,933 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,463 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,319 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,210 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,561 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,837 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,156 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,532 | — | — |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,320 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,397 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,782 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,764 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,313 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,510 | — | — |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,568 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 1921 | 20 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,524 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).