Ole is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ollie, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Ole: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #242 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #242 in 1881; #4,820 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ole in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,820 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #242.
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Ole: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #242 in 1881 · most boys in one year: 42 (1881).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Ole, making it the 4,820th most common boys’ name of the year, up 185 places from #5,005 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 20 boys named Ole in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #242, reached in 1881. That year also had the most boys given the name: 42. For comparison, it was #5,222 in 2015 and #2,538 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ole in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 29 babies. In all, 2,125 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1880s, with 310 babies named Ole.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 202 US boys were named Ole; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ola (30,275 babies since 1880) and Ollie (59,267 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ole in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 21 | #4,820 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #5,005 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,197 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,149 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,332 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,380 |
| 2019 | — | — | 22 | #4,599 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,699 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,700 |
| 2016 | — | — | 21 | #4,728 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,222 |
| 2014 | — | — | 23 | #4,355 |
| 2013 | — | — | 13 | #6,511 |
| 2012 | — | — | 8 | #9,476 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,872 |
| 2010 | — | — | 12 | #6,978 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,631 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #12,164 |
| 2007 | — | — | 9 | #8,718 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,664 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #8,116 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,707 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,412 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,322 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,696 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,468 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,531 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #9,107 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,803 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,201 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,880 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,835 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,827 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,213 |
| 1978 | — | — | 10 | #3,779 |
| 1977 | — | — | 10 | #3,773 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,921 |
| 1975 | — | — | 12 | #3,188 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,753 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,376 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,653 |
| 1970 | — | — | 11 | #3,019 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,832 |
| 1968 | — | — | 14 | #2,274 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,723 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,455 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,435 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,517 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,276 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,795 |
| 1961 | — | — | 17 | #2,052 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,646 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,771 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #1,999 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,776 |
| 1956 | — | — | 17 | #2,002 |
| 1955 | — | — | 20 | #1,770 |
| 1954 | — | — | 18 | #1,873 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,688 |
| 1952 | — | — | 19 | #1,790 |
| 1951 | — | — | 21 | #1,670 |
| 1950 | — | — | 10 | #2,538 |
| 1949 | — | — | 15 | #2,005 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,409 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,815 |
| 1946 | — | — | 15 | #1,931 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,350 |
| 1944 | — | — | 12 | #2,164 |
| 1943 | — | — | 12 | #2,251 |
| 1942 | — | — | 11 | #2,353 |
| 1941 | — | — | 11 | #2,297 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,437 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,256 |
| 1938 | — | — | 10 | #2,438 |
| 1937 | — | — | 15 | #1,893 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,707 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,814 |
| 1934 | — | — | 15 | #1,909 |
| 1933 | — | — | 16 | #1,812 |
| 1932 | — | — | 15 | #1,976 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #3,025 |
| 1930 | — | — | 28 | #1,389 |
| 1929 | — | — | 20 | #1,713 |
| 1928 | — | — | 13 | #2,357 |
| 1927 | — | — | 28 | #1,428 |
| 1926 | — | — | 21 | #1,699 |
| 1925 | — | — | 20 | #1,787 |
| 1924 | — | — | 20 | #1,823 |
| 1923 | — | — | 13 | #2,412 |
| 1922 | — | — | 27 | #1,460 |
| 1921 | — | — | 23 | #1,629 |
| 1920 | — | — | 31 | #1,313 |
| 1919 | — | — | 35 | #1,204 |
| 1918 | — | — | 40 | #1,088 |
| 1917 | — | — | 38 | #1,089 |
| 1916 | — | — | 27 | #1,324 |
| 1915 | — | — | 41 | #993 |
| 1914 | — | — | 30 | #1,042 |
| 1913 | — | — | 26 | #987 |
| 1912 | — | — | 24 | #932 |
| 1911 | — | — | 11 | #1,100 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,280 |
| 1909 | — | — | 13 | #829 |
| 1908 | — | — | 9 | #1,002 |
| 1907 | — | — | 10 | #917 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,207 |
| 1905 | — | — | 9 | #899 |
| 1904 | — | — | 9 | #856 |
| 1903 | — | — | 17 | #545 |
| 1902 | — | — | 15 | #579 |
| 1901 | — | — | 17 | #485 |
| 1900 | — | — | 17 | #618 |
| 1899 | — | — | 11 | #648 |
| 1898 | — | — | 13 | #628 |
| 1897 | — | — | 15 | #541 |
| 1896 | — | — | 19 | #476 |
| 1895 | — | — | 20 | #450 |
| 1894 | — | — | 19 | #455 |
| 1893 | — | — | 14 | #527 |
| 1892 | — | — | 16 | #513 |
| 1891 | — | — | 14 | #490 |
| 1890 | — | — | 24 | #368 |
| 1889 | — | — | 20 | #413 |
| 1888 | — | — | 40 | #284 |
| 1887 | — | — | 19 | #386 |
| 1886 | — | — | 28 | #324 |
| 1885 | — | — | 31 | #306 |
| 1884 | — | — | 30 | #323 |
| 1883 | — | — | 35 | #281 |
| 1882 | — | — | 36 | #287 |
| 1881 | — | — | 42 | #242 |
| 1880 | — | — | 29 | #315 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).