Meaning not yet researched.
Olive: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,597 in 2025. Its best rank was #82 in 1893.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #82 in 1893; #197 in 2025. About 99.5% of babies named Olive in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#197 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1893, at #82.
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Olive: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,597 girls in 2025. Peak: #82 in 1893 · most girls in one year: 1,836 (2022).
In 2025, 1,597 US girls were named Olive, making it the 197th most common girls’ name of the year, down 27 places from #170 in 2024. That is 192 fewer than the 1,789 girls named Olive in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #82, reached in 1893. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,836, in 2022. For comparison, it was #264 in 2015 and #892 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Olive in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 224 babies with the name. In all, 67,320 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 12,458 babies named Olive.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,082 US girls were named Olive; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,836. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,006 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Olive ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #72 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Olivia (568,136 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Olyve, Olav and Ollive are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Livia, Nollie and Ollie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Olyve (50), Olav (38), Ollive (12), Oliv (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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 5 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 54 | #72 | #90 |
| Alaska | 8 | #83 | #169 |
| Maine | 12 | #89 | #212 |
| North Dakota | 10 | #98 | #124 |
| Vermont | 5 | #100 | — |
| Colorado | 51 | #103 | #192 |
| Minnesota | 46 | #113 | #127 |
| Oregon | 28 | #122 | #81 |
| Washington | 52 | #127 | #178 |
| Michigan | 65 | #129 | #245 |
| Idaho | 16 | #131 | #158 |
| Montana | 8 | #136 | — |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #142 | #187 |
| Illinois | 68 | #146 | #268 |
| Missouri | 41 | #150 | #206 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #152 | #147 |
| Arizona | 41 | #157 | #270 |
| Indiana | 44 | #158 | #265 |
| Nevada | 16 | #162 | #248 |
| Wisconsin | 33 | #163 | #189 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #167 | #217 |
| Maryland | 30 | #174 | #374 |
| California | 183 | #177 | #240 |
| Nebraska | 13 | #179 | #350 |
| Ohio | 63 | #179 | #253 |
| Kansas | 19 | #182 | #203 |
| Oklahoma | 22 | #184 | #262 |
| North Carolina | 58 | #184 | #383 |
| Virginia | 43 | #195 | #308 |
| Pennsylvania | 55 | #208 | #331 |
| Massachusetts | 27 | #214 | #213 |
| Iowa | 16 | #220 | #170 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #235 | #306 |
| Florida | 75 | #254 | #398 |
| New York | 64 | #264 | #376 |
| Tennessee | 28 | #277 | #378 |
| Alabama | 18 | #281 | #784 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #286 | #641 |
| Georgia | 36 | #289 | #585 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #290 | #479 |
| Texas | 110 | #310 | #454 |
| New Jersey | 24 | #347 | #383 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #357 | — |
| Arkansas | 9 | #362 | #434 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #439 | #420 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #505 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,597 | #197 | 7 | #10,398 |
| 2024 | 1,789 | #170 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,651 | #180 | 6 | #11,873 |
| 2022 | 1,836 | #159 | 5 | #13,798 |
| 2021 | 1,636 | #182 | 6 | #11,760 |
| 2020 | 1,491 | #196 | 6 | #11,619 |
| 2019 | 1,435 | #214 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,232 | #268 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,253 | #256 | 6 | #11,809 |
| 2016 | 1,162 | #273 | 9 | #8,629 |
| 2015 | 1,212 | #264 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,152 | #281 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,097 | #291 | — | — |
| 2012 | 860 | #365 | — | — |
| 2011 | 763 | #415 | — | — |
| 2010 | 541 | #543 | 5 | #13,722 |
| 2009 | 512 | #589 | — | — |
| 2008 | 358 | #807 | — | — |
| 2007 | 271 | #989 | — | — |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,715 | — | — |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,746 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,408 | — | — |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,028 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,389 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,259 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,864 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,219 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,985 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,750 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,868 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,337 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,502 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,554 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,270 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,936 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,096 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,992 | — | — |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,917 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,647 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,764 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,711 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,477 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,297 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,819 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,915 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,466 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,406 | — | — |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,168 | — | — |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,725 | — | — |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 1960 | 48 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,811 | — | — |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,418 | 6 | #3,863 |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1954 | 58 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 1953 | 72 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1952 | 80 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1951 | 67 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1950 | 99 | #892 | — | — |
| 1949 | 97 | #902 | — | — |
| 1948 | 122 | #780 | 6 | #3,574 |
| 1947 | 98 | #896 | — | — |
| 1946 | 123 | #730 | — | — |
| 1945 | 134 | #630 | 6 | #3,222 |
| 1944 | 110 | #721 | — | — |
| 1943 | 203 | #530 | 5 | #3,910 |
| 1942 | 180 | #555 | — | — |
| 1941 | 208 | #487 | — | — |
| 1940 | 169 | #528 | — | — |
| 1939 | 235 | #441 | — | — |
| 1938 | 234 | #440 | 6 | #3,425 |
| 1937 | 252 | #408 | 8 | #2,835 |
| 1936 | 276 | #382 | 8 | #2,791 |
| 1935 | 294 | #371 | — | — |
| 1934 | 327 | #347 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 1933 | 387 | #317 | 11 | #2,324 |
| 1932 | 484 | #283 | 7 | #3,284 |
| 1931 | 514 | #274 | 12 | #2,297 |
| 1930 | 539 | #278 | 12 | #2,410 |
| 1929 | 651 | #245 | — | — |
| 1928 | 790 | #223 | 10 | #2,793 |
| 1927 | 879 | #216 | 11 | #2,651 |
| 1926 | 872 | #213 | 8 | #3,306 |
| 1925 | 975 | #204 | 7 | #3,648 |
| 1924 | 1,058 | #198 | — | — |
| 1923 | 1,222 | #179 | 8 | #3,385 |
| 1922 | 1,323 | #169 | 13 | #2,445 |
| 1921 | 1,567 | #154 | 20 | #1,811 |
| 1920 | 1,552 | #151 | 11 | #2,717 |
| 1919 | 1,488 | #149 | 11 | #2,622 |
| 1918 | 1,618 | #143 | 17 | #1,971 |
| 1917 | 1,566 | #138 | 11 | #2,522 |
| 1916 | 1,616 | #132 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 1915 | 1,654 | #123 | 13 | #2,144 |
| 1914 | 1,200 | #127 | 9 | #2,400 |
| 1913 | 994 | #129 | 5 | #3,135 |
| 1912 | 874 | #131 | 14 | #1,329 |
| 1911 | 699 | #121 | 7 | #1,499 |
| 1910 | 646 | #125 | 8 | #1,282 |
| 1909 | 645 | #112 | 6 | #1,404 |
| 1908 | 648 | #111 | — | — |
| 1907 | 568 | #118 | — | — |
| 1906 | 561 | #111 | 6 | #1,208 |
| 1905 | 598 | #107 | 6 | #1,196 |
| 1904 | 573 | #106 | — | — |
| 1903 | 597 | #97 | 6 | #1,096 |
| 1902 | 593 | #99 | — | — |
| 1901 | 539 | #98 | — | — |
| 1900 | 705 | #95 | 7 | #1,136 |
| 1899 | 565 | #98 | 5 | #1,160 |
| 1898 | 644 | #93 | — | — |
| 1897 | 583 | #92 | — | — |
| 1896 | 583 | #90 | — | — |
| 1895 | 577 | #91 | — | — |
| 1894 | 589 | #88 | — | — |
| 1893 | 589 | #82 | — | — |
| 1892 | 583 | #83 | 7 | #930 |
| 1891 | 509 | #85 | 6 | #928 |
| 1890 | 491 | #89 | — | — |
| 1889 | 464 | #88 | 5 | #1,073 |
| 1888 | 465 | #87 | — | — |
| 1887 | 394 | #85 | — | — |
| 1886 | 404 | #84 | — | — |
| 1885 | 349 | #86 | 5 | #1,054 |
| 1884 | 360 | #84 | — | — |
| 1883 | 294 | #91 | — | — |
| 1882 | 291 | #88 | — | — |
| 1881 | 211 | #100 | — | — |
| 1880 | 224 | #95 | — | — |
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).