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Dolly-Ann

Gender
Girl
Say it
DOL-ee-AN
Origin
Greek
UK rank, 2025
#4,276 for girls

Dolly-Ann is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “gift of God + favour, grace”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).

What does Dolly-Ann mean?

Greek: Dolly + Ann

“gift of God + favour, grace”

Joins Dolly (Greek, “gift of God”) and Ann (Hebrew, “favour, grace”).

Meanings borrowed from Dolly and Ann.

Is Dolly-Ann a girl's or a boy's name?

Dolly-Ann is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Dolly-Ann in the UK?

Rank in 2025
4,276th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Dolly-Ann, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 7 girls.

2025 had more girls named Dolly-Ann than any year since 2020.

In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were given Dolly-Ann or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,417, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

2013Busiest: 7 in 20202025
Dolly-Ann in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20243#5,966
20230–
20220–
20214#4,864
20207#3,274
20190–
20180–
20175#4,250
20160–
20150–
20140–
20133#6,003

Names like Dolly-Ann

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Dolly-Ann

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Dolly-Ann: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dolly-ann, updated 20 October 2026.