Olivier
Olivier reached its high-water mark in 2011 at number 1,824, and has been recorded 2,010 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,539th. About 2,000 Oliviers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Olivier boys named Olivier
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,010
- Estimated living today
- 2,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 1,824th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,539th
- First recorded
- 1924
- Girls / boys
- 21 / 1,989
How old the living Oliviers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,010 babies given the name since 1924, about 2,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 6 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Oliviers
- Olivier Giroud (born 1986)French footballer
- Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)French composer, organist and ornithologist
- Donald-Olivier Sié (born 1970)Ivorian and French association football player
- Olivier Panis (born 1966)French racecar driver
- Olivier Assayas (born 1955)French film director, screenwriter and film critic
- Olivier Boumal (born 1989)Cameroonian association football player
- Olivier Martinez (born 1966)French actor
- Olivier Dacourt (born 1974)French footballer
People named Olivier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Olivier is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Olivier is most concentrated in Florida (6.1×), New York (4.3×), Illinois (3.3×), California (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Olivier peaked:
Olivier elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Olivier | 280,340 | 5th |
| Poland boys | Olivier | 11,417 birth registrations | 59th |
| Belgium boys | Olivier | 2,748 | 53rd |
| England and Wales boys | Olivier | 2,223 | 266th |
| Switzerland boys | Olivier | 489 | 224th |
| Ireland boys | Olivier | 315 | 192nd |
| Norway boys | Olivier | 223 | 261st |
| Scotland boys | Olivier | 188 | 264th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Olivier | 62 | 230th |
| France girls | Olivier | 25 | 869th |
| England and Wales girls | Olivier | 3 | 5,765th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Olivier: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Olivier | 271 | 0.022% | 216th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Olivier | 206 | 0.047% | 119th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Olivier | 12 | 0.018% | 125th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Olivier is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.08% of children were given it – 57 of them.
Olivier: rank by region
In 2025, Olivier was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Olivier | 161 | 36 |
| Wallonia | Olivier | 461 | 5 |
| Brussels | Olivier | 187 | 7 |
In 2023, Olivier was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Olivier | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Olivier was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Olivier | 90 | 16 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Olivier | 69 | 15 |
| Lubelskie | Olivier | 68 | 12 |
| Lubuskie | Olivier | 62 | 9 |
| Łódzkie | Olivier | 85 | 12 |
| Małopolskie | Olivier | 104 | 15 |
| Mazowieckie | Olivier | 133 | 16 |
| Opolskie | Olivier | 59 | 10 |
| Podkarpackie | Olivier | 79 | 12 |
| Podlaskie | Olivier | 127 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Olivier | 107 | 11 |
| Śląskie | Olivier | 101 | 16 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Olivier | 93 | 3 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Olivier | 88 | 6 |
| Wielkopolskie | Olivier | 95 | 20 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Olivier | 65 | 14 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Olivier appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (89th), Province of Flemish Brabant (132nd), Province of Antwerp (139th), Province of West Flanders (178th) and Brussels-Capital Region (187th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Olivier by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Olivier 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Olivier | 5,808 | 10,375 |
| Finland boys | Olivier | 32 | 119 |
| the Netherlands girls | Olivier | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Where Olivier lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 804 men called Olivier were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huesca | Olivier | 8 | 0.068 | 940 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Olivier | 33 | 0.062 | 1,351 |
| Granada | Olivier | 28 | 0.060 | 880 |
| Ourense | Olivier | 8 | 0.055 | 883 |
| Málaga | Olivier | 47 | 0.054 | 1,032 |
| León | Olivier | 11 | 0.050 | 994 |
Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Olivier 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.