How rare is the name Ollie?

11,653 people in the United States have the first name Ollie, about 1 in 25,919. It ranks #2,239 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

OLLIE

#2,239

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
11,653
About
1 in 25,919
This common or more
79.1%
Who bears it

Of the 11,653 people named Ollie, 47.9% reported their origin as Black, 44.2% as White and 3.5% as two or more races. 59.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Ollie peaked in 1919, when 1,345 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1919
Births that year
1,345
In 2025*
287 ▼79%
Recorded as
mostly female

At least 59,267 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Ollie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, it ranked #139 in every decade from the 1880s to the 1890s. The largest share of babies named Ollie, 41.1%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1393,538
1890s#1395,190
1900s#1575,677
1910s#27010,190
1920s#33511,133
1930s#4177,441
1940s#5545,675
1950s#8753,448
1960s#1,3731,631
1970s#2,162839
1980s#3,466492
1990s#5,581337
2000s#6,087416
2010s#2,6721,514
2020s#1,7231,746
Before 190115.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–2741.1%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.9%
Baby boom 1946–6411%
Generation X 1965–802.6%
Millennials 1981–961.2%
Generation Z 1997–121.2%
2013 and later5.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Ollie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ollie has been most common in Mississippi (8.4×), Arkansas (5.7×), and Alabama (5×), and least common in New York (0.04×).

37,760 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Ollie

#2,237 Samira · 11,693#2,238 Christin · 11,676#2,240 Rey · 11,635#2,241 Dorothea · 11,625

Spelled almost the same

One first name in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Ollie, most common first.

#30,390 Olie · 287

Also a last name

As a last name, Ollie ranks #21,812 of 156,621, with 1,216 people. See Ollie as a last name

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