girls:
63.5k births since 1880
#502 (91st percentile)
boys:
387 births since 1885
#4199 (8th percentile)
overall:
63.9k births since 1880
#925 (88th percentile)
The name Olive is the #925 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 63,908 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #502 (91.2% percentile) for all time with 63,521 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,199 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 387 births since 1885.
Olive has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1885 for boys).
The name Olive has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Olive reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 83.9% percentile (ranked #155) with 1,023 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 2,628 births per million (ranked 68.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Olive ranks #175 for girls (81.6% percentile) with 938 births per million, which is 35.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Olive reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #535) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 55 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Olive ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 6.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Olive".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Olive. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.6% confident that Olive is pronounced as AH-lihv, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is OH-lihv, at 18.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 L IH0 V) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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