Olga

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Olga is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Russian form of Scandinavian Helga; from Germanic heil- 'health', later 'holy', originally 'invulnerable'.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus1 in 34◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 40
  • RURussia1 in 41

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈502K ●

across 13 countries

#33 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
395 ●

19M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 59 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

OlgaLatin · Spanish●3M records
ОльгаCyrillic · Russian●26M records
אולגהHebrew · Hebrew●121K records
ᲝლგაGeorgian · Georgian●2.6K records
ΟλγαGreek · Greek●1.9K records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ольга in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 6 more, Olha in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, אולגה in IL Israel and Ol'Ga in MD Moldova.

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●

Russian form of Scandinavian Helga; from Germanic heil- 'health', later 'holy', originally 'invulnerable'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Olga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#725,362,1128.1M rec.—#6Ольга276
UA Ukraine#107,830,5927.8M rec.—listedОльга149
AR Argentina#1511,110,763736K rec.—26Olga109
MX Mexico#128415,795329K rec.—1.1KOlga200
TR Türkiye#299335,64317K rec.——Ольга38
VE Venezuela#89275,46076K rec.——Olga65
PE Peru#108266,664218K rec.——Olga75
CL Chile#125149,6827.3K rec.—1Olga98
BY Belarus#5125,53361K rec.—68Ольга79
CO Colombia#96109,17849K rec.——Olga153
US United States#440101,464930K rec.1 in 3.3K101KOlga395
KG Kyrgyzstan#786,68219K rec.——Ольга32

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish3M45%
  • English814K12%
  • Portuguese807K12%
  • Czech332K5%
  • Polish296K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish3,016,07245%
English813,68812%
Portuguese807,03312%
Czech331,8515%
Polish295,8514%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Olga is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name684K records spelled Olga47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Croatia, Russia

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Ольга, Ol'Ga, Oľga, Олга, Oĺga

  • Finnish given name116K records spelled Olga7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Russia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ol'Ga, Õlga, Oľga, Oḽgâ

  • Lithuanian given name109K records spelled Olga6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United States, Russia

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Ol'Ga, Oļga, Ólga

  • a separate given name69K records spelled Olga9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Also written Ol'Ga, Ol’ga, Oľga, Ōlga, Olġa

  • Romanian given name66K records spelled Olga3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Moldova, United States, Romania, Italy

    Also written Oľga, Ölga

  • Hungarian given name53K records spelled Olga2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Slovenia, United States, Russia

    Also written Ol'Ga

  • Catalan given name51K records spelled Olga2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Andorra

    Also written Ólga

  • Indonesian given name12K records spelled Olga8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Ol'Ga, Ol’ga, Ölğa

  • Swahili given name11K records spelled Olga3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Kenya, Russia

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Ol'Ga

91 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Olga 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 Romanian, <rus. aahr a <scand. Edge. 1. Olga f. (Dm ; Stef) 2. Prob. forma ucr. Ilga (Din). Oliana v. Elena III 2. Olifern v. Holofern.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • In English, Russian name from Germanic, meaning 'holy'; rare in Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In French, Slavic feminine of Oleg; from Old Norse 'holy, blessed'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, Russian; 10th-century saint; feminine form of Oleg

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  • Russian name of Scandinavian origin, originally derived from the Old Norse adjective heilagr ‘prosperous’, ‘successful’. It was imported by the Scandinavian settlers who founded the first

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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●

05001K1.5K2K1900195020001.7K · 1918

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Olga in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188050
188131
188264
188381
188499
1885121
1886151
1887153
1888172
1889194
1890225
1891237
1892301
1893262
1894303
1895329
1896355
1897364
1898329
1899292
1900376
1901273
1902321
1903281
1904298
1905288
1906317
1907314
1908345
1909359
1910381
1911489
1912696
1913810
19141,107
19151,532
19161,685
19171,655
19181,691
19191,687
19201,590
19211,572
19221,535
19231,366
19241,462
19251,173
19261,157
19271,101
1928934
1929897
1930774
1931674
1932613
1933512
1934482
1935385
1936388
1937362
1938386
1939356
1940333
1941333
1942346
1943359
1944352
1945313
1946438
1947481
1948571
1949490
1950538
1951587
1952589
1953576
1954624
1955601
1956547
1957562
1958488
1959548
1960607
1961550
1962543
1963498
1964477
1965393
1966409
1967422
1968446
1969394
1970392
1971421
1972360
1973400
1974401
1975366
1976367
1977321
1978313
1979288
1980324
1981314
1982288
1983260
1984253
1985250
1986231
1987228
1988256
1989266
1990258
1991239
1992241
1993241
1994242
1995176
1996198
1997163
1998157
1999197
2000160
2001179
2002153
2003137
2004139
2005131
2006122
2007111
2008132
2009118
201060
201163
201286
201355
201479
201561
201647
201758
201853
201948
202054
202156
202254
202354
202449
202550

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Olga of Kiev, b. 890Olga Constantinovna of Russia, b. 1851Mary of Teck, b. 1867Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, b. 1868Olga Knipper, b. 1868Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, b. 1882Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, b. 1895Olga Korbut, b. 1955Olga Tokarczuk, b. 1962Olga Kurylenko, b. 1979

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 117 sources across 64 countries.

Official registers attesting Olga
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020101K#548
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—67K#71
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—61K#84
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202661K#84
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—57K#12
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—52K#760
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—51K#173
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—50K#94
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202439K#41
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202237K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—37K#705
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—34K#80

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,471 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Olga?
We estimate roughly 502 thousand people bear Olga (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Olga have the most bearers?
Olga is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled ольга.
How common is Olga compared with other names?
In Russia, Olga is the 7th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Olga a male or female name?
Olga 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 Olga mean?
Recorded meaning: Russian form of Scandinavian Helga; from Germanic heil- 'health', later 'holy', originally 'invulnerable'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Olga” — the 7th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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