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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 0.000264674 51 100%
1882 52 0.000234728 52 100%
1883 46 0.000212035 46 100%
1884 54 0.000221801 54 100%
1885 59 0.000244962 59 100%
1886 72 0.000282002 72 100%
1887 69 0.000278908 69 100%
1888 71 0.000237083 71 100%
1889 100 0.000346085 100 100%
1890 85 0.000282016 85 100%
1891 66 0.000230229 66 100%
1892 101 0.000302057 101 100%
1893 107 0.000329005 107 100%
1894 127 0.000374974 127 100%
1895 117 0.000333313 117 100%
1896 114 0.000318895 114 100%
1897 131 0.000377568 131 100%
1898 141 0.000369636 141 100%
1899 110 0.000324261 110 100%
1900 167 0.000370896 167 100%
1901 126 0.00036436 126 100%
1902 130 0.00033615 130 100%
1903 130 0.000341027 130 100%
1904 157 0.00038911 157 100%
1905 153 0.000360913 153 100%
1906 181 0.000422452 181 100%
1907 171 0.000367432 171 100%
1908 181 0.000370407 181 100%
1909 179 0.00035014 179 100%
1910 211 0.000357196 211 100%
1911 191 0.000296455 191 100%
1912 285 0.000288444 285 100%
1913 287 0.000252394 287 100%
1914 340 0.000240054 340 100%
1915 372 0.000203009 372 100%
1916 446 0.00023056 446 100%
1917 476 0.000237199 476 100%
1918 466 0.000214637 466 100%
1919 471 0.000223196 471 100%
1920 523 0.000231145 523 100%
1921 502 0.000215035 502 100%
1922 536 0.000234148 536 100%
1923 535 0.000232357 528 7 97%
1924 507 0.00021288 501 6 98%
1925 532 0.000228001 527 5 98%
1926 466 0.000202971 466 100%
1927 499 0.000215146 499 100%
1928 442 0.000195497 442 100%
1929 465 0.000212119 458 7 97%
1930 410 0.000184412 402 8 96%
1931 387 0.000183905 380 7 96%
1932 399 0.000188986 399 100%
1933 375 0.000187556 370 5 97%
1934 359 0.000172865 359 100%
1935 371 0.000177527 365 6 97%
1936 381 0.000183391 381 100%
1937 398 0.0001868 393 5 97%
1938 445 0.000201124 445 100%
1939 428 0.000194245 428 100%
1940 540 0.000234518 540 100%
1941 593 0.000243398 587 6 98%
1942 748 0.00027382 742 6 98%
1943 694 0.000245881 694 100%
1944 735 0.000273233 730 5 99%
1945 621 0.000234088 621 100%
1946 728 0.000227838 728 100%
1947 857 0.000237909 857 100%
1948 848 0.000245621 848 100%
1949 854 0.00024507 854 100%
1950 769 0.000219501 769 100%
1951 665 0.000180522 665 100%
1952 693 0.000182463 693 100%
1953 620 0.000160888 620 100%
1954 645 0.000162031 645 100%
1955 606 0.000150931 606 100%
1956 542 0.000131455 536 6 98%
1957 521 0.000123974 521 100%
1958 558 0.000135019 558 100%
1959 490 0.000117881 490 100%
1960 483 0.000116265 483 100%
1961 437 0.000105532 437 100%
1962 429 0.000106318 429 100%
1963 448 0.000113172 448 100%
1964 425 0.00010932 425 100%
1965 442 0.00012191 442 100%
1966 334 0.000096098 334 100%
1967 347 0.000102209 347 100%
1968 324 0.000095899 324 100%
1969 349 0.000100413 349 100%
1970 350 0.000097038 350 100%
1971 335 0.000097597 335 100%
1972 345 0.000109757 345 100%
1973 362 0.000119982 362 100%
1974 512 0.00016841 507 5 98%
1975 1058 0.000350362 1049 9 98%
1976 1239 0.000408286 1233 6 99%
1977 1112 0.000350048 1105 7 99%
1978 1317 0.000414909 1312 5 99%
1979 1261 0.000378984 1255 6 99%
1980 1123 0.000325995 1118 5 99%
1981 1034 0.00029888 1027 7 99%
1982 1126 0.000320964 1126 100%
1983 1090 0.000314716 1090 100%
1984 1173 0.000336225 1166 7 99%
1985 1025 0.000287194 1025 100%
1986 1240 0.000348613 1233 7 99%
1987 1710 0.000474283 1699 11 99%
1988 2150 0.000581905 2141 9 99%
1989 2469 0.000642249 2439 30 98%
1990 4642 0.001174564 4627 15 99%
1991 5610 0.001440312 5601 9 100%
1992 5824 0.001516286 5810 14 100%
1993 6349 0.001684092 6342 7 100%
1994 6444 0.00173349 6434 10 100%
1995 7637 0.002085537 7625 12 100%
1996 8136 0.002230925 8124 12 100%
1997 9489 0.002617274 9477 12 100%
1998 10626 0.002889085 10610 16 100%
1999 11274 0.003052293 11256 18 100%
2000 12860 0.00340246 12854 6 100%
2001 13988 0.003737015 13977 11 100%
2002 14647 0.003918622 14630 17 100%
2003 16174 0.004254345 16152 22 100%
2004 16180 0.004235204 16107 73 99%
2005 15722 0.004089833 15699 23 100%
2006 15522 0.003924338 15505 17 100%
2007 16604 0.004154481 16587 17 100%
2008 17117 0.004356105 17086 31 100%
2009 17459 0.004571828 17441 18 100%
2010 17061 0.004618036 17033 28 100%
2011 17348 0.004744675 17331 17 100%
2012 17346 0.004744902 17328 18 100%
2013 18470 0.00506909 18446 24 100%
2014 19852 0.005359342 19829 23 100%
2015 19726 0.005333675 19717 9 100%
2016 19413 0.005295619 19397 16 100%
2017 18775 0.005255044 18763 12 100%
2018 18048 0.005139318 18039 9 100%
2019 18561 0.005355441 18549 12 100%
2020 17677 0.00530207 17664 13 100%
2021 17807 0.005268791 17798 9 100%
2022 16589 0.004934418 16573 16 100%