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Olamae vs Olamide

American parents have registered 604 Olamides since 1880, against 182 Olamaes. Olamide is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Olamae against Olamide, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Olamae Olamide

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 60 years in which either name was published, Olamide for 36 years and Olamae for 24 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Olamae Olamide
Total US births 182604
Most in one year 1134
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 20600
Median age today 8514
Peak year 19182014
Best rank 2,822nd girls6,713th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19121986
Girls / boys 182 / 0306 / 298

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Olamaes alive today are over 85; half the Olamides are over 14. That is 71 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Olamae and Olamide.