Dolly-May
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DOL-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Dolly-May is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “gift of God + the month of May”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Dolly-May mean?
Greek: Dolly + May
“gift of God + the month of May”
Joins Dolly (Greek, “gift of God”) and May (English, “the month of May”).
Meanings borrowed from Dolly and May.
Is Dolly-May a girl's or a boy's name?
Dolly-May is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dolly-May in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Dolly-May, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 10 girls.
2025 had the fewest girls named Dolly-May since it first appeared, in 2010.
Half of all the girls named Dolly-May in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 36 girls in the UK were given Dolly-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #920, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Dolly-Mae 23
- Dollie-Mae 10
- Dolly-May 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Dolly-May in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
Names like Dolly-May
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Dorothy Delilah Daphne Dolly Sophia Athena Elena Eden Evelyn Nancy Ivy Cora
Other spellings of Dolly-May
More Greek names
Luca Theodore George Theo Lucas Sofia Alexander Sebastian Penelope Phoebe Margot Luke Chloe Sophie Zoe Iris
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-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dolly-may, updated 20 October 2026.