Olaf
Olaf is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 393rd, in 1885.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191679 births
- Best rank
- #393in 1885
- Since 1880
- 2,525people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,525 boys have been named Olaf in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 79 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 79 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1910s alone account for 20%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Olaf | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 149 | |
| 1890s | 124 | |
| 1900s | 126 | |
| 1910s | 501 | |
| 1920s | 357 | |
| 1930s | 190 | |
| 1940s | 137 | |
| 1950s | 142 | |
| 1960s | 174 | |
| 1970s | 148 | |
| 1980s | 79 | |
| 1990s | 98 | |
| 2000s | 137 | |
| 2010s | 133 | |
| 2020s | 30 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Olaf was the 669th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Olaf
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clempeak 1917
- Benpeak 1918
- Judgepeak 1919
- Guspeak 1921
- Alfpeak 1916
- Ernstpeak 1917
- Generalpeak 1918
- Hamppeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.