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Olaya

#9,929 in 2025Girls' name

Sweetly speaking

Olaya has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #9,929 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Olaya, 2025

1 in 332,000

Olaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Olaya: meaning, origin, and history

Sweetly speaking

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Olaya means

Olaya means “sweetly speaking”, associated with eúlalos.

Origin, language, and formation

Olaya is used in Asturian.

Olaya comes through Latin Eulalia and Ancient Greek Εὐλαλία.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eulalie and Eulalia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Olaya is pronounced /oˈlaʝa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 67 girls were recorded with the name Olaya between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,375 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,854 in 2020 to #9,929 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Olaya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,929
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Olaya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olaya was born before 2022 — so the typical Olaya is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
91.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
67
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 91.0% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Olaya rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+135
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,925
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 2023 (13)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,375
2023

Spellings of Olaya

Olaya is not the most common spelling — Clara is, with 26.6% against Olaya's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Olaya around the world

Where Olaya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1995–2025
    #6,491
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Olaya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,929
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,925
Best rank ever
#8,375
2023
Peak year
2023
13 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Olaya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Olaya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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