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Oliver
Pronounced /ˈɑlɪvɚ/
Rank in 2024
#3
Born in 2024
15,343
Peak year
2024 · #3
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 15,343 boys were named Oliver, about 1 in every 112.
- 2024 is its biggest year on record.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 254,854 boys have been named Oliver since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Oliver per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.6Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 1.2Gen Z1997–12
- 7.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 19,570 babies, 1.17 per 1,000. Silent: 12,114 babies, 0.59 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,213 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,707 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,142 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Gen Z: 39,118 babies, 1.25 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 156,412 babies, 7.20 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Inherited from Middle English Oliver, from Old French Olivier, by folk etymology derived from the Latin name Olīvārius, but probably representing an Old High German form of Old Norse Óleifr (“ancestral + relic”) (modern Danish Olaf and Swedish Olof), or Proto-Germanic *ala- (“all”) + *wēraz (“true”) (modern Swedish allvar). Name of a paladin of Charlemagne in medieval French romance.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɑlɪvɚ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Oliver, CC BY-SA 4.0.