Meaning not yet researched.
Olen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 33 in 2025. Its best rank was #420 in 1916.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #420 in 1916; #3,489 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Olen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,489 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1916, at #420.
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Olen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 33 boys in 2025. Peak: #420 in 1916 · most boys in one year: 193 (1922).
In 2025, 33 US boys were named Olen, making it the 3,489th most common boys’ name of the year, down 588 places from #2,901 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 44 boys named Olen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #420, reached in 1916. The most boys given the name in a single year was 193, in 1922. For comparison, it was #3,414 in 2015 and #776 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Olen in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 7,678 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,660 babies named Olen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 399 US boys were named Olen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Olin (9,934 babies since 1880), Olan (2,732 babies since 1880) and Olene (1,347 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Oleane and Ollene are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Oleane (6), Ollene (5).
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 Olen 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 | — | — | 33 | #3,489 |
| 2024 | — | — | 44 | #2,901 |
| 2023 | — | — | 39 | #3,161 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,670 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,955 |
| 2020 | — | — | 37 | #3,117 |
| 2019 | — | — | 49 | #2,649 |
| 2018 | — | — | 41 | #2,926 |
| 2017 | — | — | 31 | #3,564 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,461 |
| 2015 | — | — | 33 | #3,414 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,440 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,387 |
| 2012 | — | — | 21 | #4,635 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,151 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,358 |
| 2009 | — | — | 36 | #3,205 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,312 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,367 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,243 |
| 2005 | — | — | 15 | #5,501 |
| 2004 | — | — | 14 | #5,712 |
| 2003 | — | — | 20 | #4,230 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,975 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,323 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,328 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,938 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,965 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,184 |
| 1996 | — | — | 10 | #5,853 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,214 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,232 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,963 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #4,047 |
| 1991 | — | — | 22 | #2,964 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,032 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,569 |
| 1988 | — | — | 21 | #2,745 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,252 |
| 1986 | — | — | 17 | #2,972 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,589 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,399 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,473 |
| 1982 | — | — | 23 | #2,251 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,314 |
| 1980 | — | — | 28 | #1,990 |
| 1979 | — | — | 25 | #2,085 |
| 1978 | — | — | 21 | #2,257 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #1,989 |
| 1976 | — | — | 37 | #1,491 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,816 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,963 |
| 1973 | — | — | 25 | #1,810 |
| 1972 | — | — | 24 | #1,860 |
| 1971 | — | — | 33 | #1,516 |
| 1970 | — | — | 42 | #1,291 |
| 1969 | — | — | 34 | #1,390 |
| 1968 | — | — | 32 | #1,383 |
| 1967 | — | — | 40 | #1,193 |
| 1966 | — | — | 39 | #1,213 |
| 1965 | — | — | 41 | #1,200 |
| 1964 | — | — | 46 | #1,141 |
| 1963 | — | — | 51 | #1,076 |
| 1962 | — | — | 49 | #1,105 |
| 1961 | — | — | 33 | #1,399 |
| 1960 | — | — | 50 | #1,111 |
| 1959 | — | — | 55 | #1,043 |
| 1958 | — | — | 54 | #1,047 |
| 1957 | — | — | 60 | #987 |
| 1956 | — | — | 55 | #1,015 |
| 1955 | — | — | 64 | #939 |
| 1954 | — | — | 79 | #818 |
| 1953 | — | — | 89 | #755 |
| 1952 | — | — | 66 | #867 |
| 1951 | — | — | 76 | #810 |
| 1950 | — | — | 78 | #776 |
| 1949 | — | — | 81 | #769 |
| 1948 | — | — | 66 | #844 |
| 1947 | — | — | 97 | #704 |
| 1946 | — | — | 81 | #727 |
| 1945 | — | — | 77 | #696 |
| 1944 | — | — | 95 | #631 |
| 1943 | — | — | 117 | #589 |
| 1942 | — | — | 96 | #660 |
| 1941 | — | — | 104 | #583 |
| 1940 | — | — | 102 | #588 |
| 1939 | — | — | 95 | #598 |
| 1938 | — | — | 96 | #607 |
| 1937 | — | — | 113 | #548 |
| 1936 | — | — | 104 | #564 |
| 1935 | — | — | 107 | #557 |
| 1934 | — | — | 119 | #542 |
| 1933 | — | — | 119 | #520 |
| 1932 | — | — | 126 | #513 |
| 1931 | — | — | 117 | #543 |
| 1930 | — | — | 134 | #518 |
| 1929 | — | — | 138 | #503 |
| 1928 | — | — | 164 | #478 |
| 1927 | — | — | 163 | #476 |
| 1926 | — | — | 152 | #488 |
| 1925 | — | — | 150 | #496 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,337 | 169 | #477 |
| 1923 | — | — | 180 | #455 |
| 1922 | — | — | 193 | #437 |
| 1921 | — | — | 174 | #467 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,829 | 164 | #477 |
| 1919 | — | — | 183 | #439 |
| 1918 | — | — | 154 | #479 |
| 1917 | — | — | 142 | #483 |
| 1916 | — | — | 178 | #420 |
| 1915 | — | — | 154 | #439 |
| 1914 | — | — | 111 | #455 |
| 1913 | — | — | 106 | #422 |
| 1912 | — | — | 61 | #506 |
| 1911 | — | — | 30 | #556 |
| 1910 | — | — | 24 | #594 |
| 1909 | — | — | 24 | #540 |
| 1908 | — | — | 27 | #485 |
| 1907 | — | — | 22 | #506 |
| 1906 | — | — | 16 | #609 |
| 1905 | — | — | 18 | #563 |
| 1904 | — | — | 18 | #532 |
| 1903 | — | — | 18 | #516 |
| 1902 | — | — | 13 | #640 |
| 1901 | — | — | 11 | #670 |
| 1900 | — | — | 14 | #693 |
| 1899 | — | — | 10 | #696 |
| 1898 | — | — | 13 | #629 |
| 1897 | — | — | 12 | #635 |
| 1896 | — | — | 16 | #529 |
| 1895 | — | — | 12 | #634 |
| 1894 | — | — | 10 | #712 |
| 1893 | — | — | 13 | #563 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #929 |
| 1891 | — | — | 7 | #821 |
| 1890 | — | — | 6 | #966 |
| 1889 | — | — | 8 | #771 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,136 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #1,023 |
| 1885 | — | — | 10 | #629 |
| 1883 | — | — | 10 | #628 |
| 1881 | — | — | 9 | #635 |
| 1880 | — | — | 8 | #724 |
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).