Olin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: US defense products co
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈoʊɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 80K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 109K
- CNChina≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
US defense products co.
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Olin, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Olin | 7 |
| US United States | 4,152 | 1 in 80K | 4.3K | Olin | 318 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 46 | Olin | 57 |
| CA Canada | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 1 | Olin | 51 |
| IT Italy | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Olin | 10 |
| IE Ireland | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Olin | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Olin | 11 |
| SG Singapore | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Olin | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Olin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nci, the seventeenth of the twenty day signs of the tōnalpōhualli; a conceptual depiction of movement as two intertwining bands of color
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, first-person singular indicative imperfect of olla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, first-person singular past indicative of olema
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, first-person singular past indicative of olla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, coach; steer; manage the affairs of another
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Olin Wellbornb. 1843USAmerican politician (1843–1921)
- Wilbur Olin Atwaterb. 1844USAmerican agricultural chemist (1844–1907); developer of the respiration calorimeter
- Olin Howlandb. 1886USAmerican actor (1886–1959)
- Olin Downesb. 1886USAmerican music critic (1886–1955)
- Olin D. Johnstonb. 1896USAmerican politician (1896-1965)
- Olin Chaddock Wilsonb. 1909USAmerican astronomer (1909-1994)
- Olin E. Teagueb. 1910USAmerican politician (1910-1981)
- Olin Jeuck Eggenb. 1919USAmerican astronomer (1919–1998)
- Lindsey Grahamb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician and attorney (1955–2026)
- Olin Browneb. 1959USprofessional golfer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,213 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 46 | #53,501 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Olin a male or female name?
- Olin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Olin mean, and where does it come from?
- US defense products co. Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Olin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈoʊɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Olin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Olin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olin.
- How common is the name Olin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,152 people named Olin in 2020, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Olin?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olinThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Olin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.