Olevia — girls' name
1,945 babies named Olevia in U.S. Social Security records since 1882, with the highest year being 1921. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Olevia was born in this single decade.
50 babies were named Olevia in 1921 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Olevia
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,945 babies named Olevia between 1882 and 2022, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Olevia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 50 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Olevia performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 414 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Olevia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 491 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Olevia in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Olevia 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 1,945 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.
Olevia at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Olevia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1882
- Peak year (1921)
- 50
- Annual births at peak — across 141 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
1,945 total births across 141 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1921 with 50 births in a single year.
Olevia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 414 births that decade — 21% of Olevia's all-time total
Olevia decade highlights
- Peak decade 414 births
- Runner-up 341 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Olevia's strongest decade
414 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Olevia by state
Where Olevia concentrates geographically — total births since 1882
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Louisiana | | 491 | 25.2% |
| #2 | Mississippi | | 150 | 7.7% |
| #3 | Texas | | 114 | 5.9% |
| #4 | Arkansas | | 26 | 1.3% |
| #5 | Missouri | | 10 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Alabama | | 6 | 0.3% |
491 of 1,945 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Louisiana 25.2% of nationwide
- Mississippi 7.7% of nationwide
- Texas 5.9% of nationwide
- Arkansas 1.3% of nationwide
- Missouri 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Louisiana accounts for 25.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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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, 1882–2022 (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.