Meaning not yet researched.
Olene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 0 in 2025. Its best rank was #886 in 1917.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Fewer than five US girls were given it in 2025. It peaked at #886 in 1917. No US babies were recorded with the name Olene in 2025.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
Given to fewer than five US girls in 2025; it peaked at #886 in 1917.
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Olene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 0 girls in 2025. Peak: #886 in 1917 · most girls in one year: 66 (1922).
Fewer than five US girls were named Olene in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #886, reached in 1917. The most girls given the name in a single year was 66, in 1922. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #5,130 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Olene in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 7 babies. In all, 1,347 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 482 babies named Olene.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Olene.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Olin (9,934 babies since 1880), Olen (7,678 babies since 1880) and Olan (2,732 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 Olene 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 9 | #4,779 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,045 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,777 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,473 | — | — |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,119 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,300 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,723 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,922 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,130 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,096 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,182 | — | — |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,929 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,356 | — | — |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 1934 | 39 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1932 | 36 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1931 | 45 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1930 | 36 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1926 | 44 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1924 | 60 | #989 | — | — |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1922 | 66 | #904 | — | — |
| 1921 | 47 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1920 | 50 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1919 | 55 | #963 | — | — |
| 1918 | 54 | #986 | — | — |
| 1917 | 62 | #886 | — | — |
| 1916 | 45 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1915 | 33 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,646 | — | — |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,471 | — | — |
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).