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Olive vs Oliviagrace

American parents have registered 67,320 Olives since 1880, against 236 Oliviagraces. Olive is still ahead, with 1,604 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Olive against Oliviagrace, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Olive Oliviagrace

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

Olive 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 1998, when Olive had 18 and Oliviagrace had 6.

Side by side

  Olive Oliviagrace
Total US births 67,320236
Most in one year 1,84120
Babies in 2025 1,60413
Estimated living today 25,000230
Median age today 78
Peak year 20222019
Best rank 158th girls5,986th girls
Rank in 2025 197th7,885th
First recorded 18801998
Girls / boys 66,926 / 394236 / 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.

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