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Olen

#3,488 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Olen has been given to 7,678 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,488 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 193 recorded.

Babies named Olen, 2025

1 in 100,000

Olen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Olen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Olen means

Olen is a given name.

The naming story behind Olen

Wikidata records Olen as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q93312920, 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, 7,665 boys were recorded with the name Olen between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 193 in 1922; its best national rank was #420 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,116 in 2020 to #3,488 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,413 in 2015 to #3,488 in 2025.

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Olen between 1920 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1924; its best national rank was #4,335 in 1924.

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 Olen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,488
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Olen 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olen was born before 1935 — so the typical Olen is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,487
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (1,647).

Is Olen 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
−587
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−372
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−75
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.1%
Peak was 1922 (193)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#420
1916

Spellings of Olen

Olen is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 10.8% against Olen's 0.23%.

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 Olen is used

Across 1910–2025, Olen was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 3,846 boys, against 1 in 27,965 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 3,846
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 4,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 7,143
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 10,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 14,286
  6. 6West Virginia1 in 14,286
  7. 7Georgia1 in 20,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 20,000

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. Olen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Olen around the world

Where Olen 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
    2018–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2012–2015
    #2,157
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Olen

People whose public names include Olen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Olen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Olen. Linked forms have their own page here.

Olin

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Olen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,488
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 372
Best rank ever
#420
1916
Peak year
1922
193 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,665
Count in 2025
33

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,335
1924
Peak year
1924
7 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Olen

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

OleArlenAlenKylenKalenLenGalenNolenOlegRylenCallenCalenTalenDalenDaylenTylenCullenKellenHarlenJalenValenKallenHalenZaylen

Names with a curve like Olen

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

OdisCletusArlieHarmonWiltonLymanMilfordWaltonHarlandBurlBertramHerschel

Sibling names for Olen

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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