Pollyanna
16
Babies in 2024
-51%
10-year change
2012
Peak · 46
0%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Pollyanna
Pollyanna has been falling out of fashion as a UK girl's name. In 2024, 16 girls were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 51% on a decade earlier.
Pollyanna reached its peak in 2012, when 46 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #825 for UK girls that year. That's roughly 35% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 625 girls have been officially registered with the name Pollyanna in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 226 girls were registered with the name, starting from 33 in 2014 and ending at 16 in 2024.