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Olando vs Olavi

American parents have registered 621 Olandos since 1880, against 41 Olavis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Olando against Olavi, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Olando Olavi

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 61 years in which either name was published, Olando for 55 years and Olavi for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Olando Olavi
Total US births 62141
Most in one year 239
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5700
Median age today 41101
Peak year 19751920
Best rank 2,001st boys2,967th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19561914
Girls / boys 0 / 6210 / 41

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 Olavis alive today are over 101; half the Olandos are over 41. That is 60 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: Olando and Olavi.