Ollivander
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- OL-i-van-der
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #3,657 for boys
Ollivander is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,657th for boys in the US (30 babies).
What does Ollivander mean?
Modern: from the wandmaker Ollivander in the Harry Potter books
Ollivanders is the Diagon Alley wand shop where Harry Potter buys his first wand.
Is Ollivander a girl's or a boy's name?
Ollivander is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 30 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ollivander in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,657among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 30about 1 in 57,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 30 boys in the US were named Ollivander, making it the 3,657th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,758th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 56 boys. It first appears in the records in 2014.
Half of all the boys named Ollivander in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 48 boys in the US were given Ollivander or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,273, up from #3,657 for this spelling alone.
- Ollivander 30
- Olivander 18
Ollivander in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,657 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,791 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,226 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,467 |
| 2021 | 30 | #3,647 |
| 2020 | 44 | #2,758 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,198 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,704 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,514 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
Nicknames for Ollivander
- Ollie 538 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Ollivander
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Oliver Wylder Archer Ledger Wilder Kylo Baker Jayceon Ander Brewer Evander Jettson
Other spellings of Ollivander
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ollivander: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ollivander, updated 20 October 2026.