# Olin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/olin/  
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 | 9,934 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,929 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 40, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 5 | 5,430 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 81 | 1,792 |
| 2012 | 81 | 1,828 |
| 2013 | 64 | 2,107 |
| 2014 | 85 | 1,777 |
| 2015 | 107 | 1,537 |
| 2016 | 94 | 1,683 |
| 2017 | 99 | 1,618 |
| 2018 | 116 | 1,495 |
| 2019 | 108 | 1,560 |
| 2020 | 89 | 1,741 |
| 2021 | 105 | 1,620 |
| 2022 | 107 | 1,632 |
| 2023 | 82 | 1,922 |
| 2024 | 69 | 2,152 |
| 2025 | 86 | 1,849 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,412 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Olin

- Olin Howland, American actor (1886–1959)
- Olin Chaddock Wilson, American astronomer (1909-1994)
- Olin J. Eggen, American astronomer (1919–1998)
- Olin D. Johnston, American politician (1896-1965)
- Wilbur Olin Atwater, American agricultural chemist (1844–1907); developer of the respiration calorimeter
- Olin Downes, American music critic (1886–1955)
- Olin Stephens, American yacht designer (1908-2008)

## 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.