girls:
1.9k births since 1884
#3869 (32nd percentile)
boys:
32 births since 1913
#4554 (1st percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1884
#5799 (25th percentile)
The name Oliva is the #5,799 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,971 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 25.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,869 (32.3% percentile) for all time with 1,939 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #4,554 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 1913.
Oliva first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Oliva is available in 125 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (125 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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.
The name Oliva has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Oliva reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #549) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 53 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Oliva ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 16.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Oliva reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #552) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oliva".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Oliva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Oliva is pronounced as oh-LEE-vuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEE-vuh, at 13.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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