Girls' name · since 1916
Olea
57 babies named Olea in U.S. Social Security records since 1916, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #33,521 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,172 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 57
- born since 1916
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Olea is the #10172 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 57 recorded since 1916.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Olea has been recorded 57 times among girls since 1916, currently ranked #10172 nationally and more common than 41% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1916 to 2025.
- #33,521 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,172 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 57 born since 1916
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Olea ranks #33,521 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,172 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 57 born since 1916, peaking in the 2020s.
- #33,521 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,172 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 57
- born since 1916
- 2020s
- peak decade
Olea's 57 recorded births place it above 53.56% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Olea compares
57 17th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Olea's all-time total is 85% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Olea | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 57 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Olea's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Olea splits its recorded history at 2019: 61% of all births land in the more recent half, 39% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1916 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 9 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Olea popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1916–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 110 years of records
Olea by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (30 births, 53% of the file).
2020s was Olea's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Olea births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 5
1910s
5 births
- 1920s 5
1920s
5 births
- 2000s 7
2000s
7 births
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
- 2020s
2020s
30 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 30 births (53% of all-time use).
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Olea: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~109 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1916–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Olea draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.