Olie
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Olie has been given to 997 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1916, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 58% boys, 42% girls all-time.
Babies named Olie, 2019
1 in 694,000
Olie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Olie over time
In 2019, Olie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Olie?
Olie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Olie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Olies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Olie was born before 1922 — so the typical Olie is around 103 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 23.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 45
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (137).
Is Olie 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 1916 (21)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Olie
Olie is not the most common spelling — Oliver is, with 20.7% against Olie's 0.04%.
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 Olie is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Olie was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 614,214 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Tennessee1 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. Olie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Olie is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Olie was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 776,157 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in —
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. Olie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Olie around the world
Where Olie 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 & Wales2008–2011#3,830in 2011
- Canada2024–2024#3,231in 2024
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.
Olie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Olie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Olie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.