Name profile

Ole

Danish and Norwegian form of Olaf.

PronunciationDanish /ˈoː.lə/; Norwegian /ˈuː.lə/
Usage languagesDanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian
US rank (2025)#4,707

Meaning and history

Danish and Norwegian variant of Olaf.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 6 births, rank #10,662
2007: 9 births, rank #8,173
2008: 6 births, rank #11,037
2009: 8 births, rank #8,985
2010: 12 births, rank #6,698
20112011: 6 births, rank #10,808
2012: 8 births, rank #8,864
2013: 13 births, rank #6,241
2014: 23 births, rank #4,263
2015: 18 births, rank #5,058
20162016: 21 births, rank #4,624
2017: 21 births, rank #4,594
2018: 21 births, rank #4,610
2019: 22 births, rank #4,480
2020: 23 births, rank #4,275
20212021: 24 births, rank #4,247
2022: 10 births, rank #7,768
2023: 19 births, rank #5,075
2024: 20 births, rank #4,890
20252025: 21 births, rank #4,707

Ole moved from #987 to #993 for boys between 1913 and 1915. Its highest annual birth count came in 1881, with 42 births.