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Olliver

Gender
Boy
Say it
OL-i-ver
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#4,248 for boys

Olliver is a boys' name of Latin origin, meaning “olive tree”. In 2025 it ranked 4,248th for boys in the US (24 babies).

What does Olliver mean?

Latin: spelling of Oliver; Norman French Olivier, linked with Latin oliva; possibly Germanic in origin

“olive tree”

Oliver is Roland's loyal companion in the medieval Song of Roland; Oliver Cromwell ruled England as Lord Protector.

Meaning borrowed from Oliver. More on Wiktionary.

Is Olliver a girl's or a boy's name?

Olliver is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Olliver in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 11 boys.

Half of all the boys named Olliver in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 11 in 20112019
Olliver in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20195#3,597
20186#3,162
20176#3,191
20166#3,241
20157#2,855
20142#6,114
201310#2,176
20120–
201111#2,011
201010#2,141
20095#3,395
20089#2,212
20076#2,873
20063#4,204
20051#5,109
20040–
20030–
20023#3,325
20010–
20003#3,146
19990–
19980–
19974#2,438

How popular is Olliver in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,248th among boys
Babies in 2025
24 about 1 in 71,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling down 29% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 24 boys in the US were named Olliver, making it the 4,248th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,271st. Its busiest year was 2015, with 44 boys. It first appears in the records in 1919.

Half of all the boys named Olliver in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 14,963 boys in the US were given Olliver or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #3, up from #4,248 for this spelling alone.

1919Busiest: 44 in 20152025
Olliver in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202524#4,248
202414#6,194
202329#3,799
202228#3,876
202138#3,120
202023#4,271
201933#3,423
201839#2,992
201732#3,437
201623#4,326
201544#2,721
201415#5,729
201316#5,400
201219#4,857
201111#7,002
201017#5,248
200912#6,798
200810#7,693
200710#7,586
20068#8,726
20055#11,464
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19295#3,957
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19275#4,208
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19226#3,870
19218#3,213
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19195#4,167

Nicknames for Olliver

Names like Olliver

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Olliver

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Olliver: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/olliver, updated 20 October 2026.