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How popular is “Olivia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Olivia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Olivia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Olivia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Olivia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Olivia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Olivia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Olivia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 44 0.00021838 44 100%
1881 51 0.000264677 51 100%
1882 52 0.000234728 52 100%
1883 46 0.000212034 46 100%
1884 54 0.000221801 54 100%
1885 59 0.000244962 59 100%
1886 72 0.000282003 72 100%
1887 69 0.00027891 69 100%
1888 71 0.000237082 71 100%
1889 100 0.000346085 100 100%
1890 85 0.000282016 85 100%
1891 66 0.000230227 66 100%
1892 101 0.000302057 101 100%
1893 107 0.000329005 107 100%
1894 127 0.000374974 127 100%
1895 117 0.000333314 117 100%
1896 114 0.000318895 114 100%
1897 131 0.000377568 131 100%
1898 141 0.000369637 141 100%
1899 110 0.00032426 110 100%
1900 167 0.000370898 167 100%
1901 126 0.00036436 126 100%
1902 130 0.000336149 130 100%
1903 130 0.000341028 130 100%
1904 157 0.00038911 157 100%
1905 153 0.000360915 153 100%
1906 181 0.000422452 181 100%
1907 171 0.000367434 171 100%
1908 181 0.000370409 181 100%
1909 179 0.00035014 179 100%
1910 211 0.000357197 211 100%
1911 191 0.000296456 191 100%
1912 285 0.000288443 285 100%
1913 287 0.000252394 287 100%
1914 340 0.000240055 340 100%
1915 372 0.00020301 372 100%
1916 446 0.00023056 446 100%
1917 476 0.000237199 476 100%
1918 466 0.000214637 466 100%
1919 471 0.000223197 471 100%
1920 523 0.000231146 523 100%
1921 502 0.000215035 502 100%
1922 536 0.000234147 536 100%
1923 535 0.000232358 528 7 97%
1924 507 0.000212881 501 6 98%
1925 532 0.000228003 527 5 98%
1926 466 0.00020297 466 100%
1927 499 0.000215146 499 100%
1928 442 0.000195494 442 100%
1929 465 0.000212119 458 7 97%
1930 410 0.000184412 402 8 96%
1931 387 0.000183901 380 7 96%
1932 399 0.000188984 399 100%
1933 375 0.000187552 370 5 97%
1934 359 0.000172861 359 100%
1935 371 0.00017752 365 6 97%
1936 381 0.000183387 381 100%
1937 398 0.000186796 393 5 97%
1938 445 0.000201123 445 100%
1939 428 0.000194242 428 100%
1940 540 0.000234509 540 100%
1941 593 0.000243389 587 6 98%
1942 748 0.00027381 742 6 98%
1943 694 0.000245876 694 100%
1944 735 0.000273226 730 5 99%
1945 621 0.000234083 621 100%
1946 728 0.000227834 728 100%
1947 857 0.000237902 857 100%
1948 848 0.000245618 848 100%
1949 854 0.000245066 854 100%
1950 769 0.000219504 769 100%
1951 665 0.000180523 665 100%
1952 694 0.000182728 694 100%
1953 620 0.000160887 620 100%
1954 645 0.000162031 645 100%
1955 604 0.000150433 604 100%
1956 542 0.000131457 536 6 98%
1957 521 0.000123984 521 100%
1958 557 0.000134739 557 100%
1959 489 0.000117605 489 100%
1960 484 0.000116519 484 100%
1961 435 0.000105014 435 100%
1962 428 0.000106062 428 100%
1963 448 0.000113183 448 100%
1964 425 0.000109322 425 100%
1965 442 0.000121916 442 100%
1966 334 0.000096097 334 100%
1967 347 0.000102212 347 100%
1968 324 0.000095903 324 100%
1969 348 0.000100135 348 100%
1970 349 0.000096769 349 100%
1971 335 0.000097601 335 100%
1972 345 0.000109768 345 100%
1973 360 0.000119328 360 100%
1974 512 0.000168421 507 5 98%
1975 1058 0.000350401 1049 9 98%
1976 1239 0.000408331 1233 6 99%
1977 1112 0.000350071 1105 7 99%
1978 1317 0.000414951 1312 5 99%
1979 1260 0.00037872 1254 6 99%
1980 1121 0.000325446 1116 5 99%
1981 1031 0.000298031 1024 7 99%
1982 1127 0.000321269 1127 100%
1983 1089 0.000314436 1089 100%
1984 1173 0.000336223 1166 7 99%
1985 1025 0.000287186 1025 100%
1986 1241 0.000348882 1234 7 99%
1987 1711 0.000474538 1700 11 99%
1988 2150 0.000581861 2141 9 99%
1989 2469 0.000642225 2439 30 98%
1990 4643 0.001174706 4628 15 99%
1991 5611 0.001440467 5602 9 100%
1992 5825 0.001516424 5811 14 100%
1993 6350 0.001684226 6343 7 100%
1994 6442 0.001732814 6432 10 100%
1995 7638 0.002085657 7626 12 100%
1996 8137 0.00223103 8125 12 100%
1997 9491 0.002617666 9479 12 100%
1998 10626 0.002888907 10610 16 100%
1999 11275 0.003052357 11257 18 100%
2000 12861 0.003402467 12855 6 100%
2001 13988 0.00373672 13977 11 100%
2002 14647 0.003918101 14630 17 100%
2003 16176 0.004254246 16154 22 100%
2004 16181 0.004234841 16108 73 99%
2005 15722 0.004089111 15699 23 100%
2006 15524 0.003923978 15507 17 100%
2007 16605 0.004153656 16588 17 100%
2008 17118 0.004354988 17087 31 100%
2009 17461 0.004570733 17443 18 100%
2010 17065 0.00461748 17037 28 100%
2011 17351 0.004743572 17334 17 100%
2012 17350 0.00474385 17332 18 100%
2013 18477 0.005068209 18453 24 100%
2014 19859 0.005358064 19836 23 100%
2015 19735 0.005332469 19726 9 100%
2016 19425 0.005294794 19409 16 100%
2017 18789 0.005253908 18777 12 100%
2018 18064 0.005137807 18055 9 100%
2019 18581 0.005353316 18569 12 100%
2020 17695 0.005296989 17682 13 100%
2021 17850 0.005268674 17841 9 100%
2022 16670 0.004927382 16654 16 100%
2023 15319 0.004626425 15313 6 100%
2024 14734 0.004426617 14718 16 100%