Olean vs Olene
American parents have registered 1,347 Olenes since 1880, against 870 Oleans. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Olean Olene
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 60 years in which either name was published, Olene for 47 years and Olean for 13 years. The lead changed hands 21 times.
- 1911–1962 Olene ahead, apart from 4 short spells
17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Olean | Olene | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 870 | 1,347 |
| Most in one year | 39 | 66 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 130 | 200 |
| Median age today | 82 | 82 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 1922 |
| Best rank | 1,298th girls | 897th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1900 | 1898 |
| Girls / boys | 853 / 17 | 1,347 / 0 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Olean and Olene.