Olean
Recorded 1900–1963 · United States
Olean was most popular in 1926, when 39 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,281 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 870 people named Olean.
Olean over time
How old is the name Olean?
Olean first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1900, which makes it about 125 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 51 of the 126 years since. It was last recorded in 1963.
How many people are named Olean?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 870 American births named Olean between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 132 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Olean in 2025?
Olean was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Olean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Olean is a girl’s name — 98.0% of the 870 Americans given it were girls and 2.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Olean?
Roughly 132 Americans named Olean are alive today — 15% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 83 years old, and half are between 78 and 90. That is a narrow band: Olean arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Olean is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org