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Olin vs Oliviaann

American parents have registered 9,934 Olins since 1880, against 37 Oliviaanns. Olin is still ahead, with 86 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Olin against Oliviaann, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Olin Oliviaann

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

Olin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Olin had 82 and Oliviaann had 7.

Side by side

  Olin Oliviaann
Total US births 9,93437
Most in one year 1978
Babies in 2025 86under 5
Estimated living today 4,40040
Median age today 364
Peak year 19212022
Best rank 435th boys11,231st girls
Rank in 2025 1,837thunranked
First recorded 18802012
Girls / boys 5 / 9,92937 / 0

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 Olins alive today are over 36; half the Oliviaanns are over 4. That is 32 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: Olin and Oliviaann.