Oliver

What Oliver means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Oliver yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Oliver?

US: Rising: up from #19 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 15,396 boys got the name (#3 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 114 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 86 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 73 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (28.88 per 1,000 boys), WY (21.1 per 1,000 boys), ME (20.03 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Oliver is #3 in the US and #6 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Oliver were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Olliver24 US
• Olyver14 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Nicknames

• Moll
• Noll
• Ollie
• Olly
• Oli

Listed on Wiktionary under “diminutives”.

If you like Oliver

Boys

• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Emery#814Editor’s note Down from #745 in 2015 to #814 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Amelia#4“vigor, bravery”^*
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Evelina#778Editor’s note Up from #1,354 in 2015 to #778 in 2025 in the US
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Oliver’s. Rank is US 2025.