Dolly

English, diminutive of Dorothy

"gift of God"

Dolly Origin and Meaning

Variation of Dolly

Dolly Rank in US Top 1000

# 960 in the US

Dolly Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1152 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Dolly

• 1152 Nameberry 2025
• 624 Unique 2024
• 343 England 2024
• 67 Dogs 2022

20 Names Similar to Dolly

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Dolly.

• Kitty
• Minnie
• Polly
• Dot
• Peggy
• Penny
• Flo
• Betsy
• Bess
• Dottie
• Franny
• Myrtle
• Sally
• Bessie
• Betty
• Ginger
• Wendy
• Connie
• Lou
• Velma

Famous People Named Dolly

• Dolly Rebecca Parton American country music singer
• Dorothy Clara Louise "Dolly" Haas German,American actress, wife of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld
• Dorothy Theresa "Dolly" Hall American film producer
• Dorothy Ann "Dolly" Collins English folk musician
• Dolly Buster aka Nora Baumberger (born Nora Dvořáková) Czech,American actress
• Dolly Jacobs American circus aerialist
• Dorothy "Dolly" Peel English fishwife and smuggler
• Dorothy "Dolly" Pentreath Last native Cornish speaker
• Dolly Rathebe South African singer/actress
• Dolly Vanderlip All,American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher
• Dolly Banks Baddiel (b. 2001), daughter of actress Morwenna Banks
• Dolly Rebecca Rose O'Connell (b. 2009) daughter of actors Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell
• The Dolly Sisters Jenny and Rosie Dolly, Hungarian,American identical twin dancers and actresses, famous in the 1920s
• Dolly Rose Campbell, English actress

The name Dolly in Pop Culture

• Darya "Dolly" Alexandrovna Oblonskaya character in Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"
• Dolly Gallagher Levi main character in Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" and musical "Hello, Dolly!"
• Dolly Meriwether character in Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind"
• Dolly Keane character in The Family Circus comic strip
• Dolly Skilbeck character on British soap "Emmerdale"
• Dolly Rawlins character in "Widows"
• Dolly doll in Pixar's "Toy Story 3"
• Dolly occasional nickname for Dolores "Lolita" Haze in Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" ("she was Dolly at school")
• Dolly Scottish cloned sheep
• "Dolly Dagger " song by Jimi Hendrix
• "Little Dolly Daydream " English music hall song by Leslie Stuart.
• Dolly a character featured in Billion Surprise Toys videos. The doctor told her to never play in the rain, and she replied, "okay sure I will do like that"