Dolly-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DOL-ee-RAY
- Origin
- Greek
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Dolly-Rae is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “gift of God + ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Dolly-Rae mean?
Greek: Dolly + Rae
“gift of God + ewe”
Joins Dolly (Greek, “gift of God”) and Rae (Hebrew, “ewe”).
Meanings borrowed from Dolly and Rae.
Is Dolly-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Dolly-Rae 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-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Dolly-Rae, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 10 girls.
Half of all the girls named Dolly-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were given Dolly-Rae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,106, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Dollie-Rae 6
- Dolly-Rae 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Dolly-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
Names like Dolly-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Daphne, Dorothy, Delilah, Athena, Eden, Callie, Ottilie, Dottie, Penelope, Elodie, Elena, Maeve
Other spellings of Dolly-Rae
Dollie-Rae
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, 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-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dolly-rae, updated 20 October 2026.