Meaning and history
Molly is a medieval diminutive of Mary that is now often used as an independent name. It developed from the earlier diminutives Malle and Molle, and James Joyce used it for Molly Bloom, the wife of the main character in Ulysses (1922).
20062006: 3,127 births, rank #105
2007: 3,415 births, rank #97
2008: 3,321 births, rank #104
2009: 3,510 births, rank #92
2010: 3,362 births, rank #87
20112011: 3,616 births, rank #78
2012: 3,261 births, rank #90
2013: 3,084 births, rank #102
2014: 2,605 births, rank #122
2015: 2,254 births, rank #144
20162016: 1,986 births, rank #157
2017: 1,829 births, rank #166
2018: 1,799 births, rank #157
2019: 1,757 births, rank #161
2020: 1,645 births, rank #173
20212021: 1,583 births, rank #186
2022: 1,481 births, rank #199
2023: 1,437 births, rank #209
2024: 1,474 births, rank #208
20252025: 1,601 births, rank #196
Molly rose from #208 to #196 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1991, with 4,652 births.