Olesja
given name · Russian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Olesja is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Russian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von.
- BYBelarus1 in 197◐
- MDMoldova1 in 251
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 314
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈36K ●
- #729 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 168 ●
- 1 in 251 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.7M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Олеся in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 6 more, Olesya in US United States, ES Spain, DE Germany and 4 more, Olesia in PL Poland, GB United Kingdom, NO Norway and 1 more and Алеся in BY Belarus, TW Taiwan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #64 | 2,926,168 | 1.2M rec. | — | #52 | Олеся | 166 |
| UA Ukraine | #95 | 406,927 | 399K rec. | — | listed | Олеся | 72 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 41,461 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Олеся | 20 |
| BY Belarus | #42 | 21,719 | 12K rec. | — | 5 | Алеся | 38 |
| MD Moldova | #69 | 13,424△ | 813 rec. | 1 in 251 | 13K | Olesea | 49 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #284 | 12,285 | 2.6K rec. | — | — | Олеся | 16 |
| PL Poland | #417 | 7,047△ | 361 rec. | 1 in 5.4K | 7K | Olesia | 44 |
| US United States | — | 6,386 | 8.8K rec. | 1 in 52K | 6.4K | Olesya | 168 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #485 | 4,681 | 628 rec. | — | — | Олеся | 24 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #183 | 4,652 | 27K rec. | 1 in 4.1K | 4.7K | Олеся | 51 |
| CN China | — | 3,140 | 25 rec. | — | — | Олеся | 6 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #44 | 2,682 | 8 rec. | — | — | Олеся | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Russian44K87%
- German2.1K4%
- Estonian9422%
- Bulgarian7461%
- Czech5261%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | 43,613 | 87% |
| German | 2,071 | 4% |
| Estonian | 942 | 2% |
| Bulgarian | 746 | 1% |
| Czech | 526 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Olesja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 11 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 13 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 8 years between 2013–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Olesia Zhurakivskab. 1973UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian actress
- Olesya Zheleznyakb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Olesya Aliyevab. 1977RUnot in their usual nameRussian alpine skier
- Olesya Forshevab. 1979RUnot in their usual nameRussian sprinter
- Olesya Zykinab. 1980RUnot in their usual nameRussian athlete
- Alesia Batsmanb. 1984UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian journalist and TV host
- Olesya Rulinb. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian-American actress
- Olesya Povhb. 1987UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian sprinter
- Olesia Rykhliukb. 1987UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian volleyball player
- Olesya Novikovab. 1991RUnot in their usual nameRussian dancer
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 724 | #209 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 106 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 106 | #1,170 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 102 | #1,344 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 81 | #6,204 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 51 | #1,353 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 51 | #1,304 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 36 | #14,497 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #3,769 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 24 | #3,770 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #49,541 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 40 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Olesja?
- We estimate roughly 36 thousand people bear Olesja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Olesja have the most bearers?
- Olesja is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled олеся.
- How common is Olesja compared with other names?
- In Russia, Olesja is the 64th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Olesja a male or female name?
- Olesja is a female 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 Olesja mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Olesja” — the 64th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.