Olivier
Olivier was given to 52 boys in 2025, #2,559 among boys’ names; 2,010 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,950 Americans named Olivier and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Olivier by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Olivier mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Olivier is “a male given name from French, equivalent to English Oliver.”
Borrowed from French Olivier. Doublet of Oliver.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Olivier?
#2,559 among boys’ names, 2025
Olivier fell from #1,884 in 2015 to #2,559 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.7 to 30.4 per million.
78 babies in 2011, the peak
Olivier peaked in 2011, when 78 boys were given it, #1,832 among boys’ names. The 52 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52 | #2,559 | 30.4 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,700 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,381 | 33.9 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,430 | 33.2 |
| 2021 | 54 | #2,482 | 30.9 |
| 2020 | 47 | #2,683 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,411 | 31.2 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,095 | 37.4 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,555 | 27.0 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,004 | 37.9 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #1,884 | 40.7 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,110 | 34.4 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,013 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,060 | 35.3 |
| 2011 | 78 | #1,832 | 41.1 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,251 | 30.2 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,088 | 33.3 |
| 2008 | 73 | #1,961 | 35.8 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,229 | 28.9 |
| 2006 | 71 | #1,912 | 34.5 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,350 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,519 | 22.2 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,972 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,993 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,035 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,784 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,002 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,159 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,234 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,259 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,799 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 24 | #3,003 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,112 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,512 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,417 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,905 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,442 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,834 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,915 | 9.6 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,378 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,741 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,862 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,064 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,934 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,649 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,922 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,746 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,177 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,563 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,643 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,030 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,504 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,375 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,307 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,926 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,450 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,836 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,003 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,723 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,365 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,916 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,453 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,573 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,776 | 2.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,806 | 4.3 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,786 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Olivier a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,010 Americans recorded as Olivier, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 52 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Olivier: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Olivier, and how old are they?
1,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,010 Americans ever recorded as Olivier. The median Olivier alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 3,990 people named Olivier (175 women and girls, 3,815 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,645 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 127 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 759 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 786 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Olivier born?
The states with the most babies named Olivier are California, Florida and New York, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,146 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,781 | 1.9× |
| New York | 5 | #1,972 | 2.6× |
| Colorado | 5 | #927 | 0.1× |
Where Olivier is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Olivier is most over-represented in New York: since 1924 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Olivier with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 273,475 babies since 1880, Olivier is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 15,053 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Olivier
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Olivier and names like it
- Compare Olivier and OliverBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOlivier peaked in 2011.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Olivier since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Olivier: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Olivier.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Olivier alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.