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Olympia

#2,210 in 2025Girls' name

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Olympia has been given to 3,644 babies in the U.S. since 1897. In 2025 it ranked #2,210 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Olympia, 2025

1 in 39,500

Olympia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Olympia: meaning, origin, and history

Olympus

Ancient Greek

What Olympia means

Olympia means “Olympus”, associated with Ólumpos.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπία (Olumpía), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Olympia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Olympia is used in English and Slovak. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Olympia comes through Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπία.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Olympia is pronounced /əˈlɪmpi.ə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,644 girls were recorded with the name Olympia between 1897 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1981; its best national rank was #854 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,491 in 2020 to #2,210 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,829 in 2015 to #2,210 in 2025.

How common is Olympia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,500
84 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,210
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,357 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Olympia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,357 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olympia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olympias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olympia was born before 1977 — so the typical Olympia is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,402
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 13.1% of all recorded uses (477).

Is Olympia 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
+273
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+281
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,619
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.8%
Peak was 1981 (104)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#854
1917

Spellings of Olympia

Olympia is the most-used spelling, taking 57.7% of the 6,314 babies given a near-identical spelling.

  • Olympia57.7%3,644
  • Olyvia42.3%2,670

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.

Where Olympia is used

Across 2016–2025, Olympia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 21,089 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 7,692
  2. 2California1 in 14,286
  3. 3Utah1 in 16,667
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Olympia around the world

Where Olympia 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #922
    in 2025
  • France
    1921–2025
    #1,825
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Olympia

People whose public names include Olympia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Olympia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Olympia. Linked forms have their own page here.

Olimpia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Olympia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,210
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 281
Best rank ever
#854
1917
Peak year
1981
104 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,644
Count in 2025
84

Names similar to Olympia

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

OlyviaOlimpiaPiaOlyviahOlyveUtopiaOlyveaCassiopiaOlyssaSohpiaAlympiaOlyneEthiopiaOlyaSepiaSopia

Names with a curve like Olympia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Olympia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CleopatraAmadaRafaelaMarcelinaDeltaAraEnaInesAntoninaCarlotaDomenicaMatilde

Sibling names for Olympia

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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