Oleva — girls' name
210 babies named Oleva in U.S. Social Security records since 1898, with the highest year being 1926. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Oleva was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Oleva in 1926 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Oleva
The Social Security Administration has registered 210 babies named Oleva between 1898 and 1938, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Oleva currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1938. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Oleva performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 77 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Oleva shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Oleva 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 210 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.
Oleva at a glance
Last recorded 1938Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Oleva popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1938–1898
- Peak year (1926)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 41 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1938.
210 total births across 41 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1926 with 13 births in a single year.
Oleva by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 77 births that decade — 37% of Oleva's all-time total
Oleva decade highlights
- Peak decade 77 births
- Runner-up 70 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Oleva's strongest decade
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% 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, 1898–1938 (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.