Holding steady.
Popularity of Olney since 1888
Babies named Olney per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 1919, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Olney's real moment was 1888.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 |
| 1890s | 0 |
| 1900s | 0 |
| 1910s | 67 |
| 1920s | 77 |
| 1930s | 25 |
| 1940s | 17 |
| 1950s | 0 |
| 1960s | 5 |
| 1970s | 0 |
| 1980s | 0 |
| 1990s | 0 |
| 2000s | 0 |
| 2010s | 0 |
| 2020s | 0 |
Meaning & origin
Olney is an exceedingly rare given name, first recorded in U.S. birth data in 1888, when it saw its peak year of use. The name has never ranked in the top 1000, and its one-in-N figure is effectively undefined due to its low frequency. Trajectory data classifies Olney as stable, meaning it has not experienced a significant revival or decline in recent decades. The name has no recorded top states, indicating its use is distributed too sparsely to identify any geographic concentration. As a surname-turned-first-name, Olney shares a pattern with many other 19th-century English family names adapted for given-name use, but it never achieved any notable popularity.
Olney is an English surname and place name, most notably the town of Olney in Buckinghamshire. The place name likely derives from Old English elements, possibly a personal name such as 'Olna' or 'Olla' combined with 'eg' meaning 'island' or 'dry ground in a marsh'. As a given name, it has seen very rare occasional use, primarily in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sibling names for Olney
Names that share Olney's style, for a brother or sister.
