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Olene

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Olene has been given to 1,347 babies in the U.S. since 1898. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Olene, 1962

1 in 448,000

Olene over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Olene: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Olene means

Olene is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Olene is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,347 girls were recorded with the name Olene between 1898 and 1962. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1922; its best national rank was #886 in 1917.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Olene?

Olene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1962, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1962
1 in 448,000
9 of 4,035,213 births
Among girls only
1 in 219,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1962
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
310,779 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Olene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1962 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 310,779 children born in 1962 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olene was born before 1925 — so the typical Olene is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
68
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (482).

Is Olene 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (66)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#886
1917

Spellings of Olene

Olene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 28.7% against Olene's 0.11%.

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 Olene is used

Across 1910–2025, Olene was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 82,690 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 20,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Olene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Olene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#886
1917
Peak year
1922
66 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
1962
All-time count
1,347
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Olene

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

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Sibling names for Olene

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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