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Oline

Girls' name

Ancestor + remainder, through Ole

Oline has been given to 377 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1917, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Oline, 1945

1 in 531,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oline: meaning, origin, and history

Ancestor + remainder, through Ole

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oline means

Oline belongs to the name family reached through Oline → Ole → Olaf → Óláfr. Its meaning is “ancestor + remainder”.

Origin, language, and formation

Oline is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ole, Caroline, Olaf and Óláfr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 377 girls were recorded with the name Oline between 1884 and 1945. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1917; its best national rank was #765 in 1886.

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 Oline?

Oline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1945, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1945
1 in 531,000
5 of 2,652,840 births
Among girls only
1 in 261,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1945
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
367,763 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oline 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 1945 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 367,763 children born in 1945 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oline was born before 1919 — so the typical Oline is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (119).

Is Oline 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 1917 (21)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#765
1886

Spellings of Oline

Oline is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 43.6% against Oline's 0.03%.

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.

Oline around the world

Where Oline 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.

  • France
    1999–2020
    #4,934
    in 2020
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #51
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Oline 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
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Best rank ever
#765
1886
Peak year
1917
21 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
1945
All-time count
377
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oline

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

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Sibling names for Oline

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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