Girls' name · peaked in 1886

Olive name popularity since 1925

32,833 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Olive. Half of them were born in 2014 or earlier, so the typical Olive is about 12 years old in 2026. Olive peaked in 1886 as the #84 name for girls, and it ranked #197 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 32,833; Named Olive, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1886; #84 for girls that year
Typical age: About 12; Median birth year 2014
In 2025: #197; for girls in 2025 (1,597 babies)
Girls / boys: 99.5% girls; 32,653 girls · 180 boys
Most popular in: Utah; 2.88× its national share

Peak year is the year Olive made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Olive births per year, 1925–2025

The biggest year on this chart was 2022. Measured as a share of all babies, Olive peaked earlier, in 1886.

Steepest fall: Between 1939 and 1944, Olive's share of baby girls fell by 61%, from 1 in 4,670 to 1 in 12,100.
Fastest rise: Between 2006 and 2011, it became 7.1× more common, from 1 in 16,400 baby girls to 1 in 2,310.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Olive's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Olive.

Decade by decade

Babies named Olive in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	4,167	36	–
1930s	3,542	71	#371
1940s	1,444	17	#630
1950s	617	6	#1,435
1960s	257	0	#2,588
1970s	122	0	#4,297
1980s	94	0	#5,270
1990s	141	0	#7,389
2000s	1,562	0	#2,117
2010s	10,707	20	#264
2020–25	10,000	30	#197

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

56.6% of babies named Olive from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Alpha years (2013–2025). The full split by generation:

Where Olive is most popular

The index compares Olive's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Olive.

State	Index	Babies
Utah	2.88×	737
Oregon	2.10×	592
Colorado	2.00×	741
Washington	1.89×	946
Minnesota	1.65×	902

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Olive's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Olive.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Olive (1886).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data