Olaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- oh-LYE-ah
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Olaya is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “sweetly spoken”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Olaya mean?
Greek: Asturian form of Eulalia
“sweetly spoken”
Honours Saint Eulalia of Mérida, a young 4th-century martyr and patron saint of Asturias, where she is called Santa Olaya.
Is Olaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Olaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Olaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Olaya, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Olaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Olaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
Names like Olaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nyomi, Kayomi, Chizaram, Niomi, Kobi, Nayomi, Demi, Simi, Olani, Kyomi, Chiara, Zuri
Names related to Olaya
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Olaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/olaya, updated 20 October 2026.