girls:
21 births since 1925
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
106 births since 1941
#4480 (2nd percentile)
overall:
127 births since 1925
#7612 (2nd percentile)
The name Olly is the #7,612 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 127 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,480 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 106 births since 1941. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1925.
Olly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for girls and 1941 for boys). Birth data for Olly is available in 12 out of the 99 years between 1925 and 2023 (11 years for boys and 4 years for girls). 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 Olly has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Olly were boys. Interestingly, until around 1941, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1925 to 1940), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (86.9% boys from 1941 to 2023).
For boys, Olly reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #920) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Olly ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 68.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Olly reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Olly".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Olly. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Olly is pronounced as AH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-lee, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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