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Olive vs Olivianna

American parents have registered 67,320 Olives since 1880, against 288 Oliviannas. Olive is still ahead, with 1,604 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Olive against Olivianna, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Olive Olivianna

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

Olive has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Olive had 546 and Olivianna had 13.

Side by side

  Olive Olivianna
Total US births 67,320288
Most in one year 1,84132
Babies in 2025 1,60411
Estimated living today 25,000290
Median age today 77
Peak year 20222019
Best rank 158th girls4,343rd girls
Rank in 2025 197th8,860th
First recorded 18802007
Girls / boys 66,926 / 394288 / 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.

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