# Olen (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/olen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,678 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,665 / 13 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | 6 | 4,829 |
| 1924 | 7 | 4,337 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 36 | 3,151 |
| 2012 | 21 | 4,635 |
| 2013 | 32 | 3,387 |
| 2014 | 32 | 3,440 |
| 2015 | 33 | 3,414 |
| 2016 | 52 | 2,461 |
| 2017 | 31 | 3,564 |
| 2018 | 41 | 2,926 |
| 2019 | 49 | 2,649 |
| 2020 | 37 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 42 | 2,955 |
| 2022 | 31 | 3,670 |
| 2023 | 39 | 3,161 |
| 2024 | 44 | 2,901 |
| 2025 | 33 | 3,489 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Olen

- Robert Olen Butler, American fiction writer
- Fred Olen Ray, American filmmaker
- Olen Steinhauer, American writer
- Olen Zellweger, Canadian ice hockey player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.