Olene

Where Olene comes from

The dictionaries list Olene as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,379 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1917
    Peak, #879
    62 babies named Olene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1930
    Olene S. Walker born
    Utah politician
  4. 1933
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,330.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Olene S. Walker · Utah politician, 1930–2015

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.