Olesja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Olesja 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.
- BYBelarus≈1 in 180as Алеся(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 298as Олеся
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 736as Алеся
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 Olesja 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 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470,000 named Олеся, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
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 and Olesea 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)
weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olesja 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 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1,181 | 1 in 1.6K | 1.2K | Olesja | 7 |
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; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)
Olesja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Olesia Zhurakivskab. 1973UAUkrainian actress
- Olesya Zheleznyakb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Olesya Aliyevab. 1977RUnot in their usual nameRussian alpine skier
- Olesya Forshevab. 1979RUnot in their usual nameRussian sprinter
- Olesya Zykinab. 1980RUnot in their usual nameRussian athlete
- Alesia Batsmanb. 1984UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian journalist and TV host
- Olesya Rulinb. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian-American actress
- Olesya Povhb. 1987UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian sprinter
- Olesia Rykhliukb. 1987UAUkrainian volleyball player
- Olesya Novikovab. 1991RUnot in their usual nameRussian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 106 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 106 | #1,170 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Olesja mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., russische Koseform von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- Is Olesja a male or female name?
- Olesja 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 Olesja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 475 thousand people named Олеся in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Olesja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olesja is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olesja?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,181 people named Olesja, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Olesja compared with other names?
- In Russia, Olesja is the 64th 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/olesjaThe 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, “Olesja” — the 64th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.