girls:
5 births since 1926
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.8k births since 1880
#1184 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.8k births since 1880
#2708 (65th percentile)
The name Olin is the #2,708 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,777 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,184 (74.2% percentile) for all time with 9,772 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1926.
Olin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1926 for girls).
The name Olin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Olin reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 33.2% percentile (ranked #353) with 175 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 263 births per million (ranked 12.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Olin ranks #835 for boys (8.4% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 16.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Olin reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #604) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1926.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Olin".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Olin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Olin is pronounced as OH-lihn, which has 2 syllables.
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