Olivia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Shakespearean form of Olive; established in England and later spread to Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Olivia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- 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
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Shakespearean form of Olive; established in England and later spread to Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Olivia is read(measured from records)
Olivia 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.
- English48%
Shakespearean form of Olive; established in England and later spread to Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
- Spanish26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Olivia in Spanish.
- French8.7%
Forme féminine liée au latin oliva, « olivier, olive ». Fête: 5 mars (sainte Olivia) dans l’usage chrétien.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du latin oliva, « olivier, olive ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Olivia 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Olivia 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.
Latinate name, first used by Shakespeare for the rich heiress wooed by the duke in Twelfth Night (1599). Shakespeare may have taken it as a feminine form of pOliver or he may have derived it from Latin oliva ‘olive’. In the 1970s it came to be associated with the Australian pop singer and actress Olivia Newton-John (b. 1948).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
A form of Olive used by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. It became an established name in England in the eighteenth century, and it probably spread from there to Ireland, where use of the name is currently increasing.
as a nameIrish first names
In Swedish, Olivia är dels en femininform till → Oliver, dels ett latinskt namn, bildat till oliva ’olivträd’. Namnet ska enligt en källa först ha använts av William Shakespeare i Tretton dagsafton (ca 1601). Olivia har varit bland de mest populära namnen under hela 2000-talet. I den rikssvenska almanackan 15 april och i den finlandssvenska 29 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Olivia de Havillandb. 1916FRBritish actress (1916–2020)
- Judi Denchb. 1934GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (born 1934)
- Olivia Newton-Johnb. 1948GBBritish–Australian singer (1948–2022)
- Olivia Williamsb. 1968GBBritish actress (born 1968)
- Olivia Colmanb. 1974GBBritish actress
- Emily Bluntb. 1983GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1983)
- Olivia Wildeb. 1984USAmerican actress and film director (born 1984)
- Olivia Culpob. 1992USAmerican model (born 1992)
- Olivia Cookeb. 1993GBBritish actress (born 1993)
- Dove Cameronb. 1996USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer
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 172 sources across 91 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 449K | #102 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 55K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 55K | #528 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 48K | #23 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 41K | #892 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31K | #142 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28K | #80 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 25K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20K | #229 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 14K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 14K | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Is Olivia a male or female name?
- Olivia 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 Olivia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 449 thousand people named Olivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olivia.
- Where is Olivia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olivia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 220 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olivia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 449,373 people named Olivia in 2020, about 1 in 740 residents.
- How common is Olivia compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Olivia is the 145th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Olivia mean, and where does it come from?
- Shakespearean form of Olive; established in England and later spread to Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Olivia?
- In the etymology graph, Oliver, Vivi and Oliwia are forms of the same name in other languages; Ollie, Liv and Livvy are recorded short or pet forms.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oliviaThe 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, “Olivia” — the 145th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.