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
Ollie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #107 among girls, with 183 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #96
    411 babies named Ollie, its best rank.
  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 on, more boys have.
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.