girls:
538.8k births since 1880
#57 (99th percentile)
boys:
765 births since 1923
#3822 (17th percentile)
overall:
539.6k births since 1880
#121 (98th percentile)
The name Olivia is the #121 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 539,570 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #57 (99.0% percentile) for all time with 538,805 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,822 (16.6% percentile) for all time with 765 births since 1923.
Olivia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1923 for boys).
The name Olivia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Olivia reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 100.0% percentile (ranked #1) with 10,116 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 10,138 births per million (ranked 99.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Olivia ranks #1 for girls (100.0% percentile) with 8,730 births per million, which is 86.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Olivia reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 8.0% percentile (ranked #779) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 35 births per million (ranked 8.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Olivia ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 9.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Olivia".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Olivia.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Olivia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Olivia.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Olivia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.0% confident that Olivia is pronounced as oh-LIH-vee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LIH-vee-uh, at 49.0% confidence, with 4 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 OW0 L IH1 V IY0 AH0) 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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