Olive — #170 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Olive

The Social Security Administration has registered 65,312 babies named Olive between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Olive currently holds the #170 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 1,836 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Olive performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 12,355 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Olive shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 3,914 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Olive in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Olive 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 65,312 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.