# Olly (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/olly/  
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 | 149 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 128 / 21 (14% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,457, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 5 | 5,582 |
| 2019 | 5 | 17,359 |
| 2021 | 5 | 17,047 |
| 2022 | 6 | 14,857 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 5 | 3,872 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,493 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10,317 |
| 2016 | 14 | 6,261 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7,982 |
| 2018 | 12 | 7,010 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,686 |
| 2020 | 12 | 6,923 |
| 2021 | 15 | 5,959 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,566 |
| 2023 | 10 | 8,094 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,617 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,543 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 507 | 122 |
| 2012 | 596 | 106 |
| 2013 | 496 | 122 |
| 2014 | 346 | 165 |
| 2015 | 348 | 166 |
| 2016 | 294 | 191 |
| 2017 | 213 | 253 |
| 2018 | 179 | 279 |
| 2019 | 155 | 310 |
| 2020 | 135 | 335 |
| 2021 | 98 | 425 |
| 2022 | 70 | 548 |
| 2023 | 67 | 561 |
| 2024 | 61 | 622 |
| 2025 | 54 | 668 |

## People named Olly

- Olly Murs, British singer (born 1984)
- Olly Alexander, British singer and actor
- Olly Blackburn, Film director and screenwriter

## 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.