Olof
Olof was last recorded in 1934, when 6 babies were given it; 107 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Olof by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Olof mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Olof is “a male given name”
From Old Swedish Olāver, Olēf, from Old Norse Óláfr, from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚾᚢᛚᚨᛁᛒᚨᛉ (*anulaibaʀ). First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1400. Cognate with Norwegian Olav and English Olaf.
/²uːlɔf/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Olof?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,568, in 1934; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1914, the peak
Olof peaked in 1914, when 9 boys were given it, #2,400 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 6 | #3,568 | 5.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,655 | 5.8 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,643 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,188 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,716 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,175 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,800 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,727 | 6.6 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,624 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,859 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 6 | #3,776 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,713 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,400 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,136 | 9.8 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,183 | 44.3 |
| 1891 | 7 | #821 | 69.2 |
| 1883 | 6 | #861 | 57.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Olof a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Olof has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Olof: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Olof, and how old are they?
An estimated 1 Americans named Olof and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 172 people named Olof (21 women and girls, 151 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43.0 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,638 babies since 1880, Olof is the second most given (4.1% of them).
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.
More about Olof and names like it
- Compare Olof and OlafBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOlof peaked in 1914.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Olof: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1914The year the most babies were named Olof.
- Names starting with OMost given first.