Olie is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Olie is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Olie each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Olie will meet someone with the same name. So, Olie is a very special name!
If your name is Olie your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Olie never ranked higher than position 1,002 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their newborn Olie. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1887 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Olie because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Olie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Olie still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Olie who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.5% of all common given names in the US begin with an O, which means that this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, O is by no means the rarest initial. While A, J and K are the most common first letters of given names, U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With four letters, the name Olie is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Now do the math: Since 1.5% of all first names begin with an O, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average.
If your name is Olie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Olie, you can simply say:
Orange
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Olie
Olie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
L
I
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
O
L
I
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Olie sounds like this:
