Meaning not yet researched.
Olin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 86 in 2025. Its best rank was #327 in 1903.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #327 in 1903; #1,849 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Olin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,849 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1903, at #327.
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Olin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 86 boys in 2025. Peak: #327 in 1903 · most boys in one year: 197 (1921).
In 2025, 86 US boys were named Olin, making it the 1,849th most common boys’ name of the year, up 303 places from #2,152 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 69 boys named Olin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #327, reached in 1903. The most boys given the name in a single year was 197, in 1921. For comparison, it was #1,537 in 2015 and #803 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Olin in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 9,934 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,540 babies named Olin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 955 US boys were named Olin; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 116. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,861 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Olin ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #695 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Olen (7,678 babies since 1880), Olan (2,732 babies since 1880) and Olene (1,347 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Olean, Oline and Ollin 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: Olean (870), Oline (377), Ollin (316), Ollen (302), Olon (128), Olyn (98), Oleen (44), Olline (15), Ulan (6), Ohlen (5), Olyne (5), Ohlin (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 Olin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 7 | #695 | #693 |
| Washington | 8 | #787 | #911 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #838 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #857 | #653 |
| California | 5 | #2,709 | #1,998 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 86 | #1,849 |
| 2024 | — | — | 69 | #2,152 |
| 2023 | — | — | 82 | #1,922 |
| 2022 | — | — | 107 | #1,632 |
| 2021 | — | — | 105 | #1,620 |
| 2020 | — | — | 89 | #1,741 |
| 2019 | — | — | 108 | #1,560 |
| 2018 | — | — | 116 | #1,495 |
| 2017 | — | — | 99 | #1,618 |
| 2016 | — | — | 94 | #1,683 |
| 2015 | — | — | 107 | #1,537 |
| 2014 | — | — | 85 | #1,777 |
| 2013 | — | — | 64 | #2,107 |
| 2012 | — | — | 81 | #1,828 |
| 2011 | — | — | 81 | #1,792 |
| 2010 | — | — | 73 | #1,935 |
| 2009 | — | — | 70 | #2,002 |
| 2008 | — | — | 57 | #2,317 |
| 2007 | — | — | 67 | #2,062 |
| 2006 | — | — | 58 | #2,218 |
| 2005 | — | — | 54 | #2,229 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,273 |
| 2003 | — | — | 38 | #2,665 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,587 |
| 2001 | — | — | 42 | #2,373 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,906 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #3,005 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,836 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,485 |
| 1996 | — | — | 23 | #3,180 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,431 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,664 |
| 1993 | — | — | 29 | #2,560 |
| 1992 | — | — | 28 | #2,587 |
| 1991 | — | — | 19 | #3,294 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,474 |
| 1989 | — | — | 31 | #2,236 |
| 1988 | — | — | 30 | #2,122 |
| 1987 | — | — | 43 | #1,631 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,906 |
| 1985 | — | — | 27 | #2,111 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,873 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,508 |
| 1982 | — | — | 34 | #1,726 |
| 1981 | — | — | 31 | #1,850 |
| 1980 | — | — | 40 | #1,535 |
| 1979 | — | — | 36 | #1,617 |
| 1978 | — | — | 52 | #1,250 |
| 1977 | — | — | 41 | #1,443 |
| 1976 | — | — | 30 | #1,734 |
| 1975 | — | — | 42 | #1,356 |
| 1974 | — | — | 27 | #1,777 |
| 1973 | — | — | 34 | #1,483 |
| 1972 | — | — | 38 | #1,383 |
| 1971 | — | — | 44 | #1,266 |
| 1970 | — | — | 47 | #1,216 |
| 1969 | — | — | 51 | #1,091 |
| 1968 | — | — | 49 | #1,062 |
| 1967 | — | — | 38 | #1,226 |
| 1966 | — | — | 49 | #1,055 |
| 1965 | — | — | 42 | #1,184 |
| 1964 | — | — | 59 | #986 |
| 1963 | — | — | 42 | #1,209 |
| 1962 | — | — | 76 | #878 |
| 1961 | — | — | 60 | #1,011 |
| 1960 | — | — | 55 | #1,040 |
| 1959 | — | — | 61 | #992 |
| 1958 | — | — | 62 | #968 |
| 1957 | — | — | 64 | #954 |
| 1956 | — | — | 66 | #921 |
| 1955 | — | — | 82 | #810 |
| 1954 | — | — | 71 | #873 |
| 1953 | — | — | 94 | #742 |
| 1952 | — | — | 82 | #780 |
| 1951 | — | — | 76 | #811 |
| 1950 | — | — | 72 | #803 |
| 1949 | — | — | 77 | #786 |
| 1948 | — | — | 77 | #779 |
| 1947 | — | — | 119 | #632 |
| 1946 | — | — | 88 | #693 |
| 1945 | — | — | 79 | #683 |
| 1944 | — | — | 86 | #671 |
| 1943 | — | — | 112 | #599 |
| 1942 | — | — | 98 | #643 |
| 1941 | — | — | 108 | #573 |
| 1940 | — | — | 94 | #615 |
| 1939 | — | — | 122 | #517 |
| 1938 | — | — | 137 | #498 |
| 1937 | — | — | 139 | #482 |
| 1936 | — | — | 165 | #440 |
| 1935 | — | — | 177 | #416 |
| 1934 | — | — | 186 | #406 |
| 1933 | — | — | 108 | #554 |
| 1932 | — | — | 114 | #555 |
| 1931 | — | — | 127 | #511 |
| 1930 | — | — | 155 | #479 |
| 1929 | — | — | 135 | #509 |
| 1928 | — | — | 118 | #565 |
| 1927 | — | — | 132 | #535 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,430 | 126 | #542 |
| 1925 | — | — | 140 | #520 |
| 1924 | — | — | 147 | #521 |
| 1923 | — | — | 168 | #469 |
| 1922 | — | — | 184 | #456 |
| 1921 | — | — | 197 | #436 |
| 1920 | — | — | 188 | #443 |
| 1919 | — | — | 166 | #458 |
| 1918 | — | — | 175 | #449 |
| 1917 | — | — | 146 | #476 |
| 1916 | — | — | 164 | #438 |
| 1915 | — | — | 152 | #444 |
| 1914 | — | — | 109 | #464 |
| 1913 | — | — | 108 | #416 |
| 1912 | — | — | 80 | #437 |
| 1911 | — | — | 36 | #494 |
| 1910 | — | — | 47 | #380 |
| 1909 | — | — | 34 | #432 |
| 1908 | — | — | 32 | #427 |
| 1907 | — | — | 28 | #444 |
| 1906 | — | — | 26 | #439 |
| 1905 | — | — | 25 | #447 |
| 1904 | — | — | 19 | #507 |
| 1903 | — | — | 34 | #327 |
| 1902 | — | — | 25 | #410 |
| 1901 | — | — | 18 | #462 |
| 1900 | — | — | 25 | #464 |
| 1899 | — | — | 18 | #450 |
| 1898 | — | — | 30 | #358 |
| 1897 | — | — | 23 | #399 |
| 1896 | — | — | 26 | #383 |
| 1895 | — | — | 19 | #470 |
| 1894 | — | — | 17 | #494 |
| 1893 | — | — | 18 | #444 |
| 1892 | — | — | 33 | #327 |
| 1891 | — | — | 16 | #452 |
| 1890 | — | — | 15 | #504 |
| 1889 | — | — | 18 | #439 |
| 1888 | — | — | 19 | #437 |
| 1887 | — | — | 14 | #477 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #680 |
| 1885 | — | — | 18 | #432 |
| 1884 | — | — | 22 | #382 |
| 1883 | — | — | 18 | #427 |
| 1882 | — | — | 11 | #597 |
| 1881 | — | — | 12 | #522 |
| 1880 | — | — | 11 | #593 |
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).