Polly

Polly arose in medieval England as a rhyming diminutive of Molly, which had developed from Mary. The consonant shift from M to P was standard Middle English wordplay, identical to the pattern that produced Meg and Peg. American parents used it as a standalone legal name from the beginning of federal records in 1880.

The name reads like someone who owns a bicycle with a wire basket and knows how to mend a blown tire. In modern rooms it belongs largely to women in their early sixties, having hit its modest high-water mark in 1964. It avoids grandiosity entirely, offering two brisk syllables that need no further shortening. It suggests a person who arrives five minutes early with baked goods and leaves without asking for credit.