Olie — boys' name
577 babies named Olie in U.S. Social Security records since 1882, with the highest year being 1916. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Olie was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Olie in 1916 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Olie
The Social Security Administration has registered 577 babies named Olie between 1882 and 2019, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Olie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Olie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 420 additional births since 1880.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Olie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 137 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Olie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Olie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Olie 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 577 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.
Olie at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Olie popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1882
- Peak year (1916)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 138 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
577 total births across 138 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1916 with 21 births in a single year.
Olie popularity over time — girls
420 total births recorded since 1880 (Olie as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Olie accounts for 42% of total recorded use across both genders.
Olie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 137 births that decade — 24% of Olie's all-time total
Olie decade highlights
- Peak decade 137 births
- Runner-up 136 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Olie's strongest decade
137 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
Olie by state
Where Olie concentrates geographically — total births since 1882
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Tennessee | | 6 | 1.0% |
6 of 577 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Tennessee 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Tennessee accounts for 1.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 1882–2019 (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.