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Olsen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,176 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Olsen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,176 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Olsen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,176 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 66 (2025).
In 2025, 66 US boys were named Olsen, making it the 2,176th most common boys’ name of the year, up 74 places from #2,250 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 64 boys named Olsen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,176, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #4,510 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Olsen in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 496 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 277 babies named Olsen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 362 US boys were named Olsen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,880 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Olsen ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #921 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 9 | #921 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,217 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,863 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,711 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 66 | #2,176 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,250 |
| 2023 | — | — | 44 | #2,878 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,448 |
| 2021 | — | — | 31 | #3,629 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,912 | 33 | #3,396 |
| 2019 | — | — | 24 | #4,307 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,255 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,863 |
| 2016 | — | — | 20 | #4,895 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,510 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,534 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,576 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,994 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,921 |
| 2010 | — | — | 7 | #10,447 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,127 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #13,862 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,552 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,856 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,509 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,875 |
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).