Ollie
The girl's name Ollie has been in the national records since 1880, with 59,267 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,276th. About 14,000 Ollies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ollie boys named Ollie
Girls and boys called Ollie
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Ollie crossed from girls to boys in 1964, and has stayed there for 59 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 83% boys, and in 2025 it was 72%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 143 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 59,267
- Estimated living today
- 14,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 195th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,276th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 41,641 / 17,626
How old the living Ollies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 59,267 babies given the name since 1880, about 14,000 are alive — 23 in every hundred. Roughly 3,400 of them are children and 7,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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
from Latin olivarius (“olive tree”) (from oliva (“olive”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ollies
- Ollie Watkins (born 1995)English footballer
- Ollie Johnston (1912–2008)American animator
- Ollie Matson (1930–2011)American football player and sprinter
- Ollie Maclean (born 1998)New Zealand rower
People named Ollie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ollie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ollie is most concentrated in Mississippi (8.5×), Arkansas (5.7×), Alabama (5.0×), Kentucky (4.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular girls’ names the year Ollie peaked:
Ollie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ollie | 13,605 | 63rd |
| Scotland boys | Ollie | 2,022 | 38th |
| Ireland boys | Ollie | 1,971 | 31st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ollie | 1,145 | 18th |
| Belgium boys | Ollie | 64 | 406th |
| New Zealand boys | Ollie | 50 | 96th |
| England and Wales girls | Ollie | 46 | 1,928th |
| France girls | Ollie | 40 | 5,431st |
| Poland boys | Ollie | 25 birth registrations | 487th |
| France boys | Ollie | 15 | 4,274th |
| Belgium girls | Ollie | 12 | 1,023rd |
| Switzerland boys | Ollie | 9 | 1,916th |
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.
Ollie: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ollie | 6 | 0.000% | 1,469th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ollie | 3 | 0.001% | 591st |
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.
Ollie: rank by region
In 2025, Ollie was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ollie | 255 | 23 |
| Flanders | Ollie | 753 | 6 |
In 2024, Ollie was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Ollie | 324 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ollie appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (251st), Province of East Flanders (264th) and Province of Antwerp (326th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Ollie 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 | Ollie | 20 | 30 |
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
Ollie 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.