Olyn
Olyn was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,636 among boys’ names; 98 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Olyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Olyn?
#11,636 among boys’ names, 2025
Olyn rose from #13,512 in 2015 to #11,636 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 3.5 per million.
8 babies in 1918, the peak
Olyn peaked in 1918, when 8 boys were given it, #3,294 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,636 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,796 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,760 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,316 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,438 | 3.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,512 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,743 | 3.1 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,890 | 5.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,574 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,633 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 5 | #4,645 | 4.5 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,422 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,729 | 6.6 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,294 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,231 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,160 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Olyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Olyn has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Olyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Olyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 43 Americans named Olyn 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 142 people named Olyn (16 women and girls, 126 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.5 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).
How common is the spelling Olyn?
Olyn is a less common spelling of Olin: SSA has recorded 98 Olyn and 9,934 Olin since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 21,188 babies since 1880, Olyn is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 154 babies (3.9%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Olyn and names like it
- Compare Olyn and OlinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sOlyn peaked in 1918.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Olyn.
- Names starting with OMost given first.