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Olly

Olly is a boy's name that peaked in 2021, when it was the 5,776th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 140 Ollys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Olly boys named Olly

By the numbers

Total US births
149
Estimated living today
140
Median age today
5
Peak year
2021
Best rank
5,776th
Rank in 2025
7,194th
First recorded
1925
Girls / boys
21 / 128

How old the living Ollys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 149 babies given the name since 1925, about 140 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Ollys

People named Olly with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Olly is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2021

The most popular boys’ names the year Olly peaked:

All the names of 2021

Olly elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Olly 4,457 106th
Scotland boys Olly 629 86th
Ireland boys Olly 277 188th
Northern Ireland boys Olly 241 91st
Poland boys Olly 11 birth registrations 422nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Olly against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.