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Olson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,758 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,758 in 1939; #3,732 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Olson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,732 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #2,758.
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Olson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,758 in 1939 · most boys in one year: 36 (2024).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Olson, making it the 3,732nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 412 places from #3,320 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 36 boys named Olson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,758, reached in 1939. The most boys given the name in a single year was 36, in 2024. For comparison, it was #6,974 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Olson in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 6 babies. In all, 343 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 142 babies named Olson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 207 US boys were named Olson; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 30 | #3,732 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,320 |
| 2023 | — | — | 27 | #4,084 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,810 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,252 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,203 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,684 |
| 2018 | — | — | 22 | #4,568 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,249 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,720 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,921 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #7,942 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,873 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #11,797 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,052 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,091 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #12,703 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,365 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #7,071 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,005 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,442 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,186 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,318 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,237 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,629 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,074 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,101 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,758 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,076 |
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).