Olive
Olive is ranked 171st among girls in 2024 (1,778 births). Its best rank was 82nd, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- #171up 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,7780.11% of girls
- Peak year
- 20221,836 births
- Best rank
- #82in 1893
- Since 1880
- 65,312people given the name
The story in the numbers
65,312 girls have been named Olive in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 1,836 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1910s alone account for 19%. It has spent 89 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 24 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Olive | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,456 | |
| 1890s | 5,713 | |
| 1900s | 6,027 | |
| 1910s | 12,355 | |
| 1920s | 10,889 | |
| 1930s | 3,541 | |
| 1940s | 1,444 | |
| 1950s | 617 | |
| 1960s | 257 | |
| 1970s | 122 | |
| 1980s | 94 | |
| 1990s | 141 | |
| 2000s | 1,562 | |
| 2010s | 10,705 | |
| 2020s | 8,389 |
In 2022, its biggest year
Olive was the 158th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Olive
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zellapeak 1917
- Zorapeak 2019
- Wilhelminapeak 1916
- Malliepeak 2022
- Lenapeak 1917
- Evapeak 1918
- Arapeak 2022
- Tilliepeak 1915
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.