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Oland vs Olando

American parents have registered 621 Olandos since 1880, against 274 Olands. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Oland against Olando, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Oland Olando

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 90 years in which either name was published, Olando for 55 years and Oland for 35 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Oland Olando
Total US births 274621
Most in one year 1623
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30570
Median age today 8241
Peak year 19191975
Best rank 1,973rd boys2,001st boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19071956
Girls / boys 0 / 2740 / 621

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Olands alive today are over 82; half the Olandos are over 41. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Oland and Olando.