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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 0.000212035 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 0.000237082 71 100%
1889 100 0.000346085 100 100%
1890 85 0.000282016 85 100%
1891 66 0.000230228 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 0.000369637 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 0.000341027 130 100%
1904 157 0.00038911 157 100%
1905 153 0.000360914 153 100%
1906 181 0.000422452 181 100%
1907 171 0.000367433 171 100%
1908 181 0.000370408 181 100%
1909 179 0.00035014 179 100%
1910 211 0.000357197 211 100%
1911 191 0.000296456 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 0.000230561 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 0.000234148 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 0.000202971 466 100%
1927 499 0.000215145 499 100%
1928 442 0.000195495 442 100%
1929 465 0.00021212 458 7 97%
1930 410 0.000184412 402 8 96%
1931 387 0.000183903 380 7 96%
1932 399 0.000188985 399 100%
1933 375 0.000187553 370 5 97%
1934 359 0.000172862 359 100%
1935 371 0.000177523 365 6 97%
1936 381 0.000183388 381 100%
1937 398 0.000186799 393 5 97%
1938 445 0.000201123 445 100%
1939 428 0.000194243 428 100%
1940 540 0.000234514 540 100%
1941 593 0.000243394 587 6 98%
1942 748 0.000273816 742 6 98%
1943 694 0.000245876 694 100%
1944 735 0.000273229 730 5 99%
1945 621 0.000234086 621 100%
1946 728 0.000227836 728 100%
1947 857 0.000237906 857 100%
1948 848 0.000245619 848 100%
1949 854 0.000245069 854 100%
1950 769 0.000219503 769 100%
1951 665 0.000180524 665 100%
1952 694 0.000182727 694 100%
1953 619 0.000160629 619 100%
1954 645 0.000162032 645 100%
1955 605 0.000150684 605 100%
1956 542 0.000131456 536 6 98%
1957 521 0.000123987 521 100%
1958 557 0.000134728 557 100%
1959 490 0.000117881 490 100%
1960 484 0.000116516 484 100%
1961 435 0.000105023 435 100%
1962 429 0.000106324 429 100%
1963 448 0.000113179 448 100%
1964 425 0.000109323 425 100%
1965 442 0.000121915 442 100%
1966 334 0.000096099 334 100%
1967 347 0.000102213 347 100%
1968 324 0.000095904 324 100%
1969 349 0.000100422 349 100%
1970 349 0.00009677 349 100%
1971 335 0.000097603 335 100%
1972 345 0.000109767 345 100%
1973 360 0.00011933 360 100%
1974 512 0.000168421 507 5 98%
1975 1059 0.000350735 1050 9 98%
1976 1239 0.00040833 1233 6 99%
1977 1112 0.000350081 1105 7 99%
1978 1317 0.000414957 1312 5 99%
1979 1260 0.000378724 1254 6 99%
1980 1121 0.000325447 1116 5 99%
1981 1032 0.000298323 1025 7 99%
1982 1127 0.000321271 1127 100%
1983 1089 0.000314442 1089 100%
1984 1173 0.000336233 1166 7 99%
1985 1025 0.000287197 1025 100%
1986 1241 0.000348895 1234 7 99%
1987 1710 0.000474277 1699 11 99%
1988 2150 0.000581889 2141 9 99%
1989 2468 0.000641984 2438 30 98%
1990 4643 0.001174775 4628 15 99%
1991 5610 0.001440276 5601 9 100%
1992 5825 0.001516501 5811 14 100%
1993 6349 0.001684025 6342 7 100%
1994 6442 0.001732894 6432 10 100%
1995 7637 0.002085461 7625 12 100%
1996 8136 0.002230848 8124 12 100%
1997 9490 0.002617475 9478 12 100%
1998 10626 0.002889001 10610 16 100%
1999 11274 0.003052184 11256 18 100%
2000 12860 0.003402305 12854 6 100%
2001 13988 0.003736844 13977 11 100%
2002 14647 0.003918266 14630 17 100%
2003 16174 0.004254059 16152 22 100%
2004 16180 0.0042349 16107 73 99%
2005 15722 0.004089429 15699 23 100%
2006 15523 0.003924116 15506 17 100%
2007 16604 0.004153849 16587 17 100%
2008 17118 0.004355616 17087 31 100%
2009 17459 0.004571024 17441 18 100%
2010 17063 0.004617679 17035 28 100%
2011 17350 0.004744127 17333 17 100%
2012 17349 0.004744511 17331 18 100%
2013 18472 0.00506804 18448 24 100%
2014 19856 0.005358642 19833 23 100%
2015 19730 0.00533265 19721 9 100%
2016 19420 0.005295129 19404 16 100%
2017 18783 0.005254402 18771 12 100%
2018 18059 0.005138938 18050 9 100%
2019 18573 0.005354315 18561 12 100%
2020 17690 0.005299827 17677 13 100%
2021 17833 0.005268729 17824 9 100%
2022 16646 0.004926877 16630 16 100%
2023 15276 0.004632957 15270 6 100%