Olga

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Olga boys named Olga

By the numbers

Total US births

62,070

Estimated living today

23,000

Median age today

58

Peak year

1918

Best rank

141st

Rank in 2025

3,167th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

61,872 / 198

How old the living Olgas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 62,070 babies given the name since 1880, about 23,000 are alive — 37 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 8,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

Borrowed in the 19th century from Old East Slavic О́льга, name of a Kievan knyaginya (Saint Olga of Kiev), a medieval form of Helga, Old Norse heilagr (“holy; inviolable, sacred”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Olgas

• Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962)Polish writer and activist
• Olga Kurylenko (born 1979)Ukrainian-French actress and model
• Olga of Kiev (890–969)princess of Kiev, Orthodox saint (c. 890–925)
• Olga Korbut (born 1955)Belarusian gymnast (*1955)
• Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895–1918)Grand Duchess of Russia (1895–1918); eldest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
• Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851–1926)Queen of the Hellenes
• Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882–1960)Grand Duchess of Russia (1882–1960); youngest child of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
• Olga Kaniskina (born 1985)Russian race walker

People named Olga with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Olga is most common

• TX10,949
• NY7,924
• CA5,903
• PA4,950
• IL2,990
• NJ2,847
• OH1,706
• MI1,526
• MA1,488
• FL1,087

Relative to how many babies each state records, Olga is most concentrated in Texas (2.8×), North Dakota (2.7×), New Jersey (2.0×), New York (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1918

The most popular girls’ names the year Olga peaked:

• Mary
• Helen
• Dorothy
• Margaret
• Ruth
• Mildred

All the names of 1918

Olga elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Olga: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Olga: rank by region

In 2025, Olga was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2025, Olga was given 2 times or more in 15 regions of Poland.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Olga by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Olga among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Olga lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 50,605 women called Olga were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.