Olamide vs Olan

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Olamide Olan

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 125 years in which either name was published, Olan for 105 years and Olamide for 20 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

• 1895–1985 Olan ahead
• 1986 Olamide ahead
• 1988–1989 Olan ahead
• 1991–1993 Olamide ahead
• 1994–1996 Olan ahead
• 1997–1999 Olamide ahead
• 2000–2001 Olan ahead
• 2002–2010 Olamide ahead
• 2011–2013 Olan ahead
• 2014–2017 Olamide ahead
• 2018–2025 Olan ahead

Side by side

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 Olans alive today are over 46; half the Olamides are over 14. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Olamide Texas (9.1×)
• Olan Oklahoma (8.9×), Texas (8.2×), Alabama (4.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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