Ole

Where Ole comes from

Borrowed from Danish Ole.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ole
  • Danish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1644
    Ole Rømer born
    Danish astronomer (*1644 – †1710)
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #314 among boys — 29 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #237
    42 babies named Ole — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #377.
  5. 1973
    Ole Gunnar Solskjær born
    Norwegian association football manager
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Danish.
Namesakes
  • Ole Rømer · Danish astronomer (*1644 – †1710), 1644–1710
  • Ole Gunnar Solskjær · Norwegian association football manager, born 1973
  • Ole Einar Bjørndalen · Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier, born 1974
  • Ole Kirk Christiansen · Danish businessman, 1891–1958
  • Ole Nydahl · Danish lama, 1941–2026

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.