girls:
41.5k births since 1880
#663 (88th percentile)
boys:
17.2k births since 1880
#877 (81st percentile)
overall:
58.7k births since 1880
#975 (87th percentile)
The name Ollie is the #975 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 58,677 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #663 (88.4% percentile) for all time with 41,476 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #877 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 17,201 births since 1880.
Ollie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Ollie has been given predominantly to girls, with 70.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 34.8% of babies named Ollie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1965, the name was more popular for girls (74.2% girls from 1880 to 1964), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (64.3% boys from 1965 to 2023).
For girls, Ollie reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 69.0% percentile (ranked #111) with 1,841 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 2,175 births per million (ranked 64.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ollie ranks #846 for girls (10.7% percentile) with 61 births per million, which is 2.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ollie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 52.6% percentile (ranked #254) with 363 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 879 births per million (ranked 40.3% percentile). Despite a peak around 2005, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Ollie ranks #717 for boys (21.3% percentile) with 109 births per million, which is 12.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ollie".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ollie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Ollie is pronounced as AH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-lee, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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