Olga
Olga is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 48 births. Its best rank was 126th, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 480.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19181,691 births
- Best rank
- #126in 1916
- Since 1880
- 61,817people given the name
The story in the numbers
61,817 girls have been named Olga in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,691 births — 0.15% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 48 births in 2024, against 1,691 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Olga | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,116 | |
| 1890s | 2,997 | |
| 1900s | 3,172 | |
| 1910s | 11,733 | |
| 1920s | 12,787 | |
| 1930s | 4,932 | |
| 1940s | 4,016 | |
| 1950s | 5,660 | |
| 1960s | 4,737 | |
| 1970s | 3,628 | |
| 1980s | 2,670 | |
| 1990s | 2,112 | |
| 2000s | 1,381 | |
| 2010s | 610 | |
| 2020s | 266 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Olga was the 141st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Olga
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Eldapeak 1916
- Aldapeak 1918
- Mariepeak 1920
- Tessiepeak 1917
- Nevapeak 1920
- Winifredpeak 1918
- Leonorepeak 1928
- Fredapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.