Olğa

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Olğa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Russian О́льга (Ólʹga). First recorded as a given name of Finns in 1812.

rarermore common
  • 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 Olğa 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)

≈3,800,000 named Ольга, est.

#13 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
458 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 59 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

OlğaLatin(measured from records)
ОльгаCyrillic(measured from records)
אולגהHebrew(measured from records)
ΟλγαGreek(measured from records)
ოლგაGeorgian(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ольга in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Olga in US United States, 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(measured from records)

Derivation of Olğa: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Olğa
  1. RussianО́льгаÓlʹga(measured from records)
  2. Old NorseHelga(inferred from the name graph)via О́льга

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

From Russian О́льга (Ólʹga). First recorded as a given name of Finns in 1812.

Sources 9

  • 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
  • Russian Names
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Olğa 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.

Where Olğa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#7≈3,800,000 est.≈1 in 37#6Ольга309
UA Ukraine#9≈1,100,000 est.≈1 in 39listedОльга159
BY Belarus#5≈310,000 est.≈1 in 3168Ольга86
CN China—≈180,000 est.≈1 in 7.7K—Ольга25
AR Argentina#132≈130,000 est.≈1 in 34126Olga113
KZ Kazakhstan#8≈120,000 est.≈1 in 15915KОльга77
US United States#433101,6531 in 3.3K101KOlga458
MD Moldova#2157,4091 in 5957KOl'Ga52

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Olğa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Russia, Croatia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Olga, Ольга, Ol'Ga, Oľga, Олга

  • Armenian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Armenia, United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Also written Օլգա, Olga, Ol'Ga, Ōlga, Ôlga

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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 Olğa mean, and where does it come from?
From Russian О́льга (Ólʹga). First recorded as a given name of Finns in 1812. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 7 other sources.
In which country does Olğa 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 Olğa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olğa is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 59 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Olğa?
In the United States, the national register counted 101,653 people named Olğa in 2020, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
How common is Olğa compared with other names?
In Russia, Olğa is the 7th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.

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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, “Olğa” — the 7th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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