Olesya
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Slavic
Olesya is a girls' name of Slavic origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Olesya mean?
Slavic
A diminutive of the female given name Aleksandra /Oleksandra, equivalent to English Alexis of Russian and Ukrainian usage.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Olesya a girl's or a boy's name?
Olesya is a girls' name.
How popular is Olesya in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Olesya in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Olesya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Names like Olesya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sophia, Solana, Nyomi, Amora, Isabella, Ximena, Alora, Luna, Aria, Camila, Eliza, Sienna
More Slavic names
Mila, Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri
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, “Olesya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/olesya, updated 20 October 2026.