Oliwia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- o-LEEV-ya
- Origin
- Latin
- UK rank, 2025
- #789 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Oliwia is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “olive tree”. In 2025 it ranked 789th for girls in the UK (50 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Oliwia mean?
Latin: Polish form of Olivia
“olive tree”
The Polish spelling of Olivia; Polish uses w for the v sound.
Is Oliwia a girl's or a boy's name?
Oliwia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 50 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Oliwia in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 789th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 50 about 1 in 5,600 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 57% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 50 girls in the UK were named Oliwia, making it the 789th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 406th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 270 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 8 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Oliwia than any year since 2005.
Half of all the girls named Oliwia in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 792nd in England and Wales and 632nd in Scotland.
Oliwia in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #789 |
| 2024 | 55 | #735 |
| 2023 | 66 | #617 |
| 2022 | 80 | #534 |
| 2021 | 101 | #469 |
| 2020 | 118 | #406 |
| 2019 | 125 | #384 |
| 2018 | 151 | #341 |
| 2017 | 175 | #303 |
| 2016 | 172 | #315 |
| 2015 | 135 | #379 |
| 2014 | 160 | #319 |
| 2013 | 187 | #277 |
| 2012 | 188 | #292 |
| 2011 | 216 | #259 |
| 2010 | 228 | #249 |
| 2009 | 270 | #209 |
| 2008 | 243 | #236 |
| 2007 | 168 | #306 |
| 2006 | 65 | #587 |
| 2005 | 14 | #1,692 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
How popular is Oliwia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Oliwia, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the girls named Oliwia in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Oliwia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,877 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,676 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,729 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,544 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,763 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
Nicknames for Oliwia
- Ola 11 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Oliwia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tiaraoluwa, Oluwatamilore, Chiara, Oluwadarasimi, Oluwanifemi, Chioma, Ireoluwa, Temiloluwa, Inioluwa, Ifeoluwa, Adesuwa, Chizaram
More Latin names
Oliver, Olivia, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Florence, Mabel, Luna, Nora, Rosie, Emilia, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Oliwia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/oliwia, updated 20 October 2026.