Olavi
The boy's name Olavi has been in the national records since 1914, with 41 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1924.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Olavi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 41
- Estimated living today
- 0
- Median age today
- 101
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 2,967th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1914
How old the living Olavis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 41 babies given the name since 1914, about 0 are alive — 0 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1924 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Olavis
- Olavi Paavolainen (1903–1964)Finnish essayist, journalist, writer, and poet
- Olavi Mannonen (1930–2019)modern pentathlete
- Olavi Virta (1915–1972)Finnish singer and actor
- Olavi Rove (1915–1966)Olympic gymnast
- Olavi Ojanperä (1921–2016)Canoe racer
- Olavi Rokka (1925–2011)Moden pentathlete
People named Olavi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Olavi is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Olavi peaked:
Olavi among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Olavi | 5,260 | 135,523 |
| Finland girls | Olavi | — | 31 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 135,523 who carry it, 5,260 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Olavi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.