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Oliwia

Oliwia reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 5,545, and has been recorded 290 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,107th. About 290 Oliwias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Oliwia

By the numbers

Total US births
290
Estimated living today
290
Median age today
15
Peak year
2006
Best rank
5,545th
Rank in 2025
10,107th
First recorded
1997

How old the living Oliwias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 290 babies given the name since 1997, about 290 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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.

Notable Oliwias

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

Where Oliwia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Oliwia is most concentrated in Illinois (17.8×).

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

Names of 2006

The most popular girls’ names the year Oliwia peaked:

All the names of 2006

Oliwia elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Poland girls Oliwia 152,488 birth registrations 3rd
England and Wales girls Oliwia 2,654 214th
Ireland girls Oliwia 579 79th
Norway girls Oliwia 412 202nd
Scotland girls Oliwia 229 209th
Belgium girls Oliwia 151 608th
France girls Oliwia 130 3,558th
Northern Ireland girls Oliwia 92 174th
Switzerland girls Oliwia 45 773rd

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.

Oliwia: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Oliwia 33 0.003% 564th
French girls Switzerland Oliwia 12 0.003% 583rd

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.

Oliwia: rank by region

In 2023, Oliwia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Oliwia 749 6

In 2025, Oliwia was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Oliwia 5 251
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Oliwia 16 115
Lubelskie Oliwia 7 159
Lubuskie Oliwia 8 67
Łódzkie Oliwia 6 202
Małopolskie Oliwia 8 374
Mazowieckie Oliwia 9 477
Opolskie Oliwia 8 67
Podkarpackie Oliwia 8 184
Podlaskie Oliwia 6 113
Pomorskie Oliwia 5 206
Śląskie Oliwia 9 295
Świętokrzyskie Oliwia 6 102
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Oliwia 13 82
Wielkopolskie Oliwia 10 265
Zachodniopomorskie Oliwia 8 108

In 2017, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Oliwia appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (253rd) and Province of Antwerp (282nd).

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.

Oliwia by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 2 555th

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

Oliwia 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.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Oliwia 20 43

A count of people on a register – 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.

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Oliwia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.