Olesya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oʊɫzjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olesya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 277K(measured from records)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 180as Алеся
- RURussia≈1 in 298as Олеся
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 Olesya 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)
- #331 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470,000 named Олеся, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Олеся in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, Алеся in BY Belarus, TW Taiwan, Olesea in MD Moldova and Oleşya in TM Turkmenistan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olesya 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 | #64 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 298 | #52 | Олеся | 183 |
| UA Ukraine | #98 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 802 | listed | Олеся | 84 |
| BY Belarus | #51 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 5 | Алеся | 33 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 736 | — | Алеся | 3 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #144 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 4.7K | Олеся | 53 |
| MD Moldova | #55 | 13,424as Olesea | 1 in 251 | 13K | Olesea | 54 |
| US United States | — | 1,200 | 1 in 277K | 1.2K | Olesya | 192 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #922 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Oleşya | 5 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
- Olesia Zhurakivskab. 1973UAUkrainian actress
- Olesya Zheleznyakb. 1974RURussian actress
- Olesya Aliyevab. 1977RURussian alpine skier
- Olesya Forshevab. 1979RURussian sprinter
- Olesya Zykinab. 1980RURussian athlete
- Alesia Batsmanb. 1984UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian journalist and TV host
- Olesya Rulinb. 1986RURussian-American actress
- Olesya Povhb. 1987UAUkrainian sprinter
- Olesia Rykhliukb. 1987UAUkrainian volleyball player
- Olesya Novikovab. 1991RURussian dancer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,900 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 27 | #1,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #10,900 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Olesya?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊɫzjə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Olesya a male or female name?
- Olesya 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.
- What are other forms of the name Olesya?
- In the etymology graph, Ali, Sandra and Alejandra are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Olesya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 475 thousand people named Олеся in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Olesya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,200 people named Olesya in 2020, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
- How common is Olesya compared with other names?
- In Russia, Olesya is the 64th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Olesya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olesyaThe 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, “Olesya” — the 64th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.