Ollie

Where Ollie comes from

From Germanic, from Latin olivarius (“olive tree”) (from oliva (“olive”)), and from Welsh.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ollie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #107 among girls — 183 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #96
    411 babies named Ollie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1930
    Ollie Matson born
    American football player and sprinter
  4. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #644.
  5. 1995
    Ollie Watkins born
    English footballer
  6. 2007
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Oliver, from French [in turn from Latin, in turn from Germanic].
  • A female given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Olivia and Olive, from Latin [in turn from Etruscan, in turn from Greek].
  • A diminutive of the female given name Olwen, from Welsh.
Namesakes
  • Ollie Watkins · English footballer, born 1995
  • Ollie Matson · American football player and sprinter, 1930–2011
  • Ollie Maclean · New Zealand rower, born 1998
  • Ollie Murray James · American politician, 1871–1918
  • Ollie Barbieri · English actor, born 1991

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.