Olívia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oliviɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olívia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Olīva, an early saints’ name from olīva (“olive; olive branch”). First popularized by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
- USUnited States1 in 740(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.1K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- 1 in 220 (inferred from the name graph)
449,373 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Olivia in US United States, BR Brazil, SE Sweden and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- LatinOlīva(measured from records)
- Latin rootolīva“olive; olive branch”(measured from records)
From Latin Olīva, an early saints’ name from olīva (“olive; olive branch”). First popularized by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Sources 8
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olívia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 449,373 | 1 in 740 | 449K | Olivia | 426 |
| BR Brazil | #527 | 55,408 | 1 in 3.8K | 55K | Olivia | 156 |
| FR France | — | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 48K | — | 5 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Olivia | 82 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30,707 | 1 in 332 | 31K | Olivia | 45 |
| FI Finland | — | 25,297 | 1 in 220 | 28K | — | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8,538 | 1 in 687 | 8.5K | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,636 | 1 in 970 | 20K | — | 9 |
| NI Nicaragua | #145 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Olivia | 21 |
449,373 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Olívia Bethlenb. 1855HUHungarian noblewoman (1855-1931)
- Olly Szokolayb. 1902HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actress (1902-1980)
- Olívia Macskásyb. 1935HUHungarian physician
- Olívia Velezb. 1951HUHungarian actress
- Olívia Ráczb. 1957RORomanian painter
- Olívia de Oliveirab. 1962BRBrazilian architect
- Olívia Marinhob. 1968PTPortuguese footballer
- Olívia Schubertb. 1974HUHungarian historian
- Olívia Kamperb. 1985HUHungarian handball player
- Olívia Lengyelováb. 2008SKSlovak figure skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 41K | #891 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #24,524 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #9,438 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Olívia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Olīva, an early saints’ name from olīva (“olive; olive branch”). First popularized by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 6 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Olívia?
- A machine transcription gives /oliviɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Olívia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 449 thousand people named Olívia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olivia.
- Where is Olívia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olívia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 220 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Olívia?
- In the etymology graph, Ollie, Vivi and Oliwia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Olívia a male or female name?
- Olívia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Olívia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 449,373 people named Olívia in 2020, about 1 in 740 residents.
- How common is Olívia compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Olívia is the 145th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Olívia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ol%C3%ADviaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Olívia” — the 145th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.