girls:
727 births since 1905
#4989 (13th percentile)
boys:
239.4k births since 1880
#161 (97th percentile)
overall:
240.1k births since 1880
#336 (96th percentile)
The name Oliver is the #336 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 240,142 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #161 (96.5% percentile) for all time with 239,415 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,989 (12.7% percentile) for all time with 727 births since 1905.
Oliver has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1905 for girls).
The name Oliver has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Oliver reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 99.8% percentile (ranked #3) with 7,844 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 8,084 births per million (ranked 99.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1988, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Oliver is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #3 (99.8% percentile) with 8,050 births per million.
For girls, Oliver reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #935) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 29 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Oliver ranks #925 for girls (2.3% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 53.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Oliver".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Oliver. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Oliver is pronounced as AH-luh-ver, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-lih-ver, at 28.9% confidence, with 3 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 AH0 V ER0) 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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