female NAME · CURRENTLY #6273

Pollyanna

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“An excessively optimistic person, from the relentlessly cheerful title character in Eleanor H. Porter's novel Pollyanna.”

A literary given name popularized by Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 novel.

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121915 251920 101925 71930 51935 101940 211960 251965 231970 271975 91980 91990 62000 72010 122015 82020 192025
LATEST YEAR202519 births
PEAK RANK#1572in 1964
CURRENT USAGE100% F0% M

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration. SSA excludes names with fewer than five occurrences in a geographic area.

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