Olee — unisex name
37 babies named Olee in U.S. Social Security records since 1917, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Olee was born in this single decade.
9 babies were named Olee in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Olee
The Social Security Administration has registered 37 babies named Olee between 1917 and 1935, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Olee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1935. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Olee is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 28 additional births since 1921.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Olee performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 17 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Olee shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Olee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 37 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Olee at a glance
Last recorded 1935Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Olee popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1935–1917
- Peak year (1920)
- 9
- Annual births at peak — across 19 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1935.
37 total births across 19 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 9 births in a single year.
Olee popularity over time — boys
28 total births recorded since 1921 (Olee as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Olee accounts for 43% of total recorded use across both genders.
Olee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 17 births that decade — 46% of Olee's all-time total
Olee decade highlights
- Peak decade 17 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Olee's strongest decade
17 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1917–1935 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.