Olen vs Olena

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Olen Olena

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 145 years in which either name was published, Olen for 142 years and Olena for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1880–1881 Olen ahead
• 1882 Olena ahead
• 1883–1885 Olen ahead
• 1886 Olena ahead
• 1887–2021 Olen ahead
• 2022 Olena ahead
• 2023–2025 Olen ahead

Side by side

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 Olens alive today are over 56; half the Olenas are over 13. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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