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Olivya

Gender
Girl
Say it
oh-LIV-ee-uh
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#8,858 for girls

Olivya is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “olive”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).

What does Olivya mean?

Latin: spelling of Olivia, as in the Russian transliteration

“olive”

Olivia was popularised by the countess in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

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

Olivya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Olivya in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,858among girls
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 150,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 36% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Olivya, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2012, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the girls named Olivya in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 27 in 20122025
Olivya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202511#8,858
20249#10,266
20239#10,307
202219#6,224
202120#5,951
202012#8,401
201917#6,694
201816#7,096
201712#8,772
201612#8,872
201510#10,143
201421#5,991
201325#5,315
201227#5,112
201124#5,541
201023#5,769
200923#5,889
200819#6,796
200718#7,088
200617#7,140
200516#7,133
20049#10,684
200314#7,575
20029#10,240
200112#8,189
200011#8,527
19997#11,378
19980–
19976#12,065

Nicknames for Olivya

Names like Olivya

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

Names related to Olivya

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