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Olan

#6,341 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Olan has been given to 2,732 babies in the U.S. since 1895. In 2025 it ranked #6,341 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Olan, 2025

1 in 237,000

Olan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Olan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Olan means

Olan is a given name.

The naming story behind Olan

Wikidata records Olan as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q96675524, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,732 boys were recorded with the name Olan between 1895 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 1920; its best national rank was #734 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,657 in 2020 to #6,341 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,148 in 2015 to #6,341 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Olan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,341
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Olan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olan was born before 1940 — so the typical Olan is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,074
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (529).

Is Olan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,678
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,684
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,193
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.3%
Peak was 1920 (69)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#734
1908

Spellings of Olan

Olan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 17.0% against Olan's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Olan is used

Across 1910–2025, Olan was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 62,947 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Olan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Olan around the world

Where Olan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2017
    #733
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    1972–2025
    #329
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #6,038
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Olan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,341
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,684
Best rank ever
#734
1908
Peak year
1920
69 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,732
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Olan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Olan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Olan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Olan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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