Oliva
Oliva was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,057 among girls’ names; 2,008 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Oliva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 15 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oliva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Oliva mean?
Wiktionary, Catalan section
Oliva is “a female given name”
[uˈli.βə]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Catalan section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Oliva?
#7,057 among girls’ names, 2025
Oliva fell from #4,944 in 2015 to #7,057 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 10.0 per million.
34 babies in 1990, the peak
Oliva peaked in 1990, when 34 girls were given it, #3,268 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,057 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,098 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,547 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,152 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,198 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,444 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,744 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,951 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,775 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,954 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,944 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,525 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,191 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,515 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,100 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,330 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,040 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,984 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,775 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,505 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,213 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,910 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,010 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,354 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,530 | 15.0 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,784 | 18.7 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,770 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,105 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,599 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,008 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,847 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,479 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,649 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,322 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,415 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,268 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,473 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,653 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,008 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,122 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,588 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,783 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,625 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,874 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,472 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,911 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,645 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,860 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,130 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,281 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,069 | 8.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,643 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,912 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,036 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,842 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,309 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,839 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,422 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,334 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,366 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,361 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,045 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,227 | 4.9 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,799 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,635 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,293 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,151 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,180 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,000 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,892 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,807 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,897 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,405 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,972 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,562 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,655 | 5.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,226 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,344 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,118 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,712 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,038 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,978 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,092 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,370 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,790 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,393 | 12.2 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,955 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,276 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,356 | 13.0 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,816 | 10.1 |
| 1926 | 18 | #2,134 | 15.2 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,781 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,851 | 18.4 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,581 | 23.2 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,363 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,851 | 18.7 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,795 | 19.2 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,516 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,676 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,590 | 22.2 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,374 | 27.8 |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,864 | 18.3 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,387 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,986 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,701 | 21.5 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,519 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,406 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,569 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,806 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,263 | 34.5 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,142 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,224 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,038 | 47.2 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,409 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,117 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,878 | 20.9 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,397 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,257 | 34.3 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,509 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,187 | 37.8 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,756 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 11 | #985 | 49.3 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,407 | 28.3 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,480 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 10 | #889 | 56.1 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,160 | 37.6 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,129 | 38.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oliva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,008 Americans recorded as Oliva, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Oliva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oliva, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 65% of the 2,008 Americans ever recorded as Oliva. The median Oliva alive today is 27 years old; half are between 15 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 5,926 people named Oliva (5,841 women and girls, 85 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,240 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 40 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 74 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 128 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 342 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 422 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 291 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Oliva born?
The states with the most babies named Oliva are California, Texas and New York, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 122 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Oliva with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 643,868 babies since 1880, Oliva is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 15,249 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Oliva
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Oliva and names like it
- Compare Oliva and OliviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sOliva peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oliva since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Oliva.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Oliva alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.