Pollyanna

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Pollyanna: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Pollyanna: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #825 in 2012, and it stood at #1,819 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#825highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#944
1997	#1015
1998	#846
1999	#1018
2000	#1831
2001	#1238
2002	#1372
2003	#1472
2004	#1158
2005	#1045
2006	#1386
2007	#1656
2008	#1584
2009	#1526
2010	#1429
2011	#894
2012	#825
2013	#944
2014	#1070
2015	#1452
2016	#1172
2017	#1371
2018	#1436
2019	#1703
2020	#1687
2021	#1569
2022	#2325
2023	#1774
2024	#1819

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #944 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #825 among girls in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1819 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Pollyanna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Pollyanna in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	88	4 of 10	22
2000s	165	10 of 10	17
2010sbusiest	293	10 of 10	29
2020s	79	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 29 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Pollyanna appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #825 in England and Wales in 2012.

Pollyanna's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1819	16	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1569	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1436	22	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1371	24	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1172	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1452	22	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1070	33	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#944	39	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#825	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#894	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1526	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1656	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1386	18	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1045	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1158	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1472	14	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1372	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1018	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#846	26	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1015	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#944	22	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #825, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,819position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
46births registered in its largest year, 201225 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cedric · #825, 29y
Romany · #824, 29y
Waris · #826, 25y
Krishna · #827, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Cedric · #825, 29y
Fardeen · #824, 21y
Romany · #824, 29y
Seerat · #826, 21y

Pollyanna was ranked #825 in England and Wales · Girls in 2012. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Pollyanna and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Pollyanna without appearing here.

Pollyanna moved ahead of

Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1831 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1238 and #3998.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1774 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1819 and #3695.
Tayla Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1774 and #1774 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1819 and #3318.
Suzanne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1429 and #1389 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #894 and #2025.

Moved ahead of Pollyanna

Rory Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1569 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #2325 and #1452.
Ivy Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1018 and #1216 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1831 and #1033.
Mila Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1372 and #1442 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1472 and #799.
Ida Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1386 and #1435 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1656 and #987.

Moved the opposite way to Pollyanna

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Pollyanna went from #944 to #1819 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Pollyanna went from #944 to #1819 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Pollyanna went from #944 to #1819 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Pollyanna went from #944 to #1819 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Pollyanna

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Pollyanna went from #944 to #1819 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Pollyanna went from #944 to #1819 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Pollyanna went from #944 to #1819 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Pollyanna went from #944 to #1819 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #825 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Pollyanna

Pollyanna at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Pollyanna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Pollyanna at a glance

Pollyanna by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Pollyanna moved ahead of

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