Olen
Olen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 44 births. Its best rank was 420th, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 440.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922193 births
- Best rank
- #420in 1916
- Since 1880
- 7,632people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,632 boys have been named Olen in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 193 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 72 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Olen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 55 | |
| 1890s | 106 | |
| 1900s | 181 | |
| 1910s | 1,143 | |
| 1920s | 1,647 | |
| 1930s | 1,130 | |
| 1940s | 916 | |
| 1950s | 676 | |
| 1960s | 415 | |
| 1970s | 282 | |
| 1980s | 195 | |
| 1990s | 159 | |
| 2000s | 174 | |
| 2010s | 360 | |
| 2020s | 193 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Olen was the 437th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Olen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Bufordpeak 1921
- Clovispeak 1917
- Merrillpeak 1926
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Francispeak 1918
- Ervinpeak 1921
- Elwinpeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.