Dolly

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

1) English pet form of Dorothy [1] [2]

2) Swedish pet form of Dolores [1]

Related Names

Doll
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Swedish
Dolli
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Danish Swedish
Dollie
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Dolly
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Dollý
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Icelandic

See also Dollan

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Dolly
Genitive: Dollys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Dolly
Genitive: Dollyn
Partitive: Dollya
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Dolly
Genitive: Dollys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Dolly
Genitive: Dollys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 519 people were named Dolly (percentage of first or only given name: 71 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
95 222 95 222 0 0
Finland Finland[6]
n.a.
241
n.a.
241 0 0
Denmark Denmark[7]
52
n.a.
52
n.a.
0
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
3 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
20
n.a.
20
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dolly.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  7. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/