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Oliver vs Olivianna

American parents have registered 270,680 Olivers since 1880, against 288 Oliviannas. Oliver is still ahead, with 14,963 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Oliver against Olivianna, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Oliver 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

Oliver 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 Oliver had 4,673 and Olivianna had 13.

Side by side

  Oliver Olivianna
Total US births 270,680288
Most in one year 15,42132
Babies in 2025 14,96311
Estimated living today 231,000290
Median age today 77
Peak year 20242019
Best rank 3rd boys4,343rd girls
Rank in 2025 3rd8,860th
First recorded 18802007
Girls / boys 777 / 269,903288 / 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: Oliver and Olivianna.