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Olamide vs Olando

American parents have registered 621 Olandos since 1880, against 604 Olamides. But in 2025 it was Olamide that was commoner, 6 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Olamide Olando

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 67 years in which either name was published, Olando for 39 years and Olamide for 28 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Olamide Olando
Total US births 604621
Most in one year 3423
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 600570
Median age today 1441
Peak year 20141975
Best rank 6,713th girls2,001st boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19861956
Girls / boys 306 / 2980 / 621

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 Olandos alive today are over 41; half the Olamides are over 14. That is 27 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: Olamide and Olando.