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Oliviah

Gender
Girl
Say it
o-LIV-ee-a
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#10,104 for girls

Oliviah is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “olive tree”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).

What does Oliviah mean?

Latin: spelling of Olivia; from Latin oliva, olive; popularised by Shakespeare

“olive tree”

Shakespeare gave it to the wealthy countess in Twelfth Night, which first made the name well known in England.

Meaning borrowed from Olivia. More on Wiktionary.

Is Oliviah a girl's or a boy's name?

Oliviah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Oliviah in the US?

Rank in 2025
10,104th among girls
Babies in 2025
9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 54% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Oliviah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,079th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 53 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.

2025 had fewer girls named Oliviah than any year since 1999.

Half of all the girls named Oliviah in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 13,553 girls in the US were given Oliviah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.

1992Busiest: 53 in 20112025
Oliviah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#10,104
202413#7,962
202311#8,984
202211#9,050
202116#6,962
202019#6,079
201925#5,161
201828#4,766
201725#5,189
201639#3,849
201541#3,704
201435#4,176
201352#3,122
201246#3,463
201153#3,131
201041#3,744
200949#3,360
200839#4,005
200735#4,298
200634#4,264
200515#7,495
200415#7,386
200311#9,043
200211#8,831
200113#7,717
200010#9,156
19998#10,338
19980–
19970–
19960–
19957#10,509
19940–
19930–
19926#11,730

Nicknames for Oliviah

Names like Oliviah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Oliviah

Names related to Oliviah

More Latin names

Every Latin name

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, “Oliviah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/oliviah, updated 20 October 2026.