Olivet
#7,797 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Olivet has been given to 118 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #7,797 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Olivet, 2025
1 in 237,000
Olivet 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Olivet?
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 girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,797
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Olivet sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olivet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Olivets were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Olivet was born before 2020 — so the typical Olivet is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 50.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 73
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 50.4% of all recorded uses (57).
Is Olivet 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
- +3,087
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,313
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +8,119
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.33×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (14)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.8% average annual change
Spellings of Olivet
Olivet is not the most common spelling — Olivia is, with 88.4% against Olivet's 0.02%.
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.
Olivet by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Olivet
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Olivet
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.