Olga
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Russian form of Scandinavian Helga; from Germanic heil- 'health', later 'holy', originally 'invulnerable'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/olɣa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olga is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- MDMoldova1 in 59(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 341
- USUnited States1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Olga itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #13 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 458 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800,000 named Ольга, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ольга in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Ol'Ga in MD Moldova.
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)
Russian form of Scandinavian Helga; from Germanic heil- 'health', later 'holy', originally 'invulnerable'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Olga is read(measured from records)
Olga is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish53%
Russian form of Scandinavian Helga; from Germanic heil- 'health', later 'holy', originally 'invulnerable'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English18%
Russian name from Germanic, meaning 'holy'; rare in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
Russian; 10th-century saint; feminine form of Oleg
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- Russian7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Olga in Russian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olga 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #7 | ≈3,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 37 | #6 | Ольга | 309 |
| UA Ukraine | #9 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 39 | listed | Ольга | 159 |
| BY Belarus | #5 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 31 | 68 | Ольга | 86 |
| CN China | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Ольга | 25 |
| AR Argentina | #132 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 341 | 26 | Olga | 113 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #8 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 159 | 15K | Ольга | 77 |
| US United States | #433 | 101,653 | 1 in 3.3K | 101K | Olga | 458 |
| MD Moldova | #21 | 57,409 | 1 in 59 | 57K | Ol'Ga | 52 |
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; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Olga is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, <rus. aahr a <scand. Edge. 1. Olga f. (Dm ; Stef) 2. Prob. forma ucr. Ilga (Din). Oliana v. Elena III 2. Olifern v. Holofern.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In French, Slavic feminine of Oleg; from Old Norse 'holy, blessed'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Russian name of Scandinavian origin, originally derived from the Old Norse adjective heilagr ‘prosperous’, ‘successful’. It was imported by the Scandinavian settlers who founded the first
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Olga of Kievb. 890RUprincess of Kiev, Orthodox saint (c. 890–925)
- Olga Constantinovna of Russiab. 1851RUQueen of the Hellenes (1851–1926)
- Mary of Teckb. 1867GBnot in their usual nameQueen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
- Princess Victoria of the United Kingdomb. 1868GBnot in their usual namefourth child and second daughter of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark (1868-1935)
- Olga Knipperb. 1868RURussian actress (1868–1959)
- Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russiab. 1882RUGrand Duchess of Russia (1882–1960); youngest child of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)
- Olga Nikolaevna Romanovab. 1895RUGrand Duchess of Russia (1895–1918); eldest child of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- Olga Korbutb. 1955USBelarusian gymnast (*1955)
- Olga Tokarczukb. 1962PLPolish writer and activist (born 1962)
- Olga Kurylenkob. 1979UAUkrainian-French actress and model
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 121 sources across 65 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 101K | #548 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 57K | #12 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 189 | #548 |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Olga mean, and where does it come from?
- Russian form of Scandinavian Helga; from Germanic heil- 'health', later 'holy', originally 'invulnerable'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Olga?
- In the etymology graph, Olha, Laila and Helga are forms of the same name in other languages; Olya and Olgica are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Olga?
- A machine transcription gives /olɣa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Olga a male or female name?
- Olga 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.
- In which country does Olga have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 million people named Ольга in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Olga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olga is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 59 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olga?
- In the United States, the national register counted 101,653 people named Olga in 2020, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Olga compared with other names?
- In Russia, Olga is the 7th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olgaThe 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, “Olga” — the 7th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.