Olha
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Olha 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.
- PLPoland1 in 566(measured from records)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 31as Ольга
- RURussia≈1 in 37as Ольга
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 Olha 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 566 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800,000 named Ольга, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
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, Olga in AR Argentina 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olha 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 |
| PL Poland | #960 | 67,674 | 1 in 566 | 68K | Olha | 69 |
| MD Moldova | #21 | 57,409as Olga | 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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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)
Olha 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 English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name О́льга (Ólʹha)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, a stew prepared with meat, chickpeas, peas and other vegetables
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mkw, Comer
as a wordApontamentos soltos da língua macúa
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)
- Olena Pchilkab. 1849UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian academic (1849–1930)
- Olha Kobylianskab. 1863ROUkrainian writer and feminist (1863–1942)
- Olga Arsenievna Oleinikb. 1925RURussian mathematician of Ukrainian origin (1925–2001)
- Olga Bryzginab. 1963UAUkrainian soviet & Ukrainian sprinter
- Olga Kurylenkob. 1979UAUkrainian-French actress and model
- Olha Freimutb. 1982UAUkrainian journalist
- Olha Saladukhab. 1983UAUkrainian triple jumper and politician
- Olha Stefanishynab. 1985UADeputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine
- Olga Savchukb. 1987UAUkrainian female tennis player
- Olha Kharlanb. 1990UAUkrainian fencer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 68K | #78 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 68K | #78 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 120 | #872 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #5,031 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 26 | #5,389 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1988 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 3 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1994 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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
- Is Olha a male or female name?
- Olha 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 Olha?
- In the etymology graph, Olga, Laila and Helga are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Olha 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 Olha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olha is densest in Poland — about 1 in 566 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olha?
- In Poland, the national register counted 67,674 people named Olha in 2026, about 1 in 566 residents.
- How common is Olha compared with other names?
- In Russia, Olha is the 7th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olhaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Olha” — the 7th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.