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Oliviagrace vs Olivier

American parents have registered 2,010 Oliviers since 1880, against 236 Oliviagraces. Olivier is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Oliviagrace against Olivier, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Oliviagrace Olivier

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

Olivier has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1924 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Oliviagrace had 20 and Olivier had 56.

Side by side

  Oliviagrace Olivier
Total US births 2362,010
Most in one year 2078
Babies in 2025 1352
Estimated living today 2302,000
Median age today 815
Peak year 20192011
Best rank 5,986th girls1,824th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th2,539th
First recorded 19981924
Girls / boys 236 / 021 / 1,989

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 Oliviers alive today are over 15; half the Oliviagraces are over 8. That is 7 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: Oliviagrace and Olivier.