Pollyanna
A girls’ name of English origin, meaning optimistic person; a form of Polly.
Babies a year
14
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2006
14 babies
Pollyanna by the numbers
In 2025, 14 babies in England and Wales were named Pollyanna. In the US, 8 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 53 babies in 1964, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Polly
Like Pollyanna, each of these traces back to Polly: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Names about as common as Pollyanna
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