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All over the world, Doly (Doly , Доли ) is a common dominantly female, but uncommonly boy's given name. The given name Doly is habitual in Bolivia, where it is quite a rare predominantly girly, but very infrequently boy's name, Egypt, and Libya, where it is quite a rare female name. In absolute terms, it is commonest in India, Egypt, and Bangladesh. Very seldom, Doly is the last name as well as the forename.
Doly is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Dolly Branican , the character created by Jules Verne, Mistress Branican; Dolly Varden , the character in Barnaby Rudge; Dolly Bantry , character in The Body in the Library and Dolly Skilbeck , the fictional television character, Emmerdale.