boys:
2.7k births since 1895
#2428 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1895
#5185 (33rd percentile)
The name Olan is the #5,185 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,696 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 33.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,428 (47.0% percentile) for all time with 2,696 births since 1895.
Olan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (first recorded for boys in 1895). Birth data for Olan is available in 119 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Olan reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 12.0% percentile (ranked #471) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 84 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Olan ranks #886 for boys (2.7% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 19.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Olan".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Olan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Olan is pronounced as OH-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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