Oliviah
Oliviah was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,703 among girls’ names; 717 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Oliviah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Oliviah?
#10,703 among girls’ names, 2025
Oliviah fell from #3,746 in 2015 to #10,703 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.0 to 5.6 per million.
53 babies in 2011, the peak
Oliviah peaked in 2011, when 53 girls were given it, #3,162 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,703 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,307 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,447 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,512 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,176 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,263 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,275 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,856 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,296 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,909 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,746 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,240 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,158 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,512 | 26.1 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,162 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,796 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,394 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,068 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,357 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,336 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,807 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,728 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,535 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,319 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,064 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,687 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,099 | 4.5 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,414 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,886 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Oliviah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Oliviah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Oliviah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Oliviah, and how old are they?
An estimated 711 Americans named Oliviah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 533 people named Oliviah (528 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 638 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Oliviah?
Oliviah is a less common spelling of Olivia: SSA has recorded 717 Oliviah and 568,136 Olivia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 576,640 babies since 1880, Oliviah is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 13,645 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Oliviah
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 Oliviah and names like it
- Compare Oliviah and OliviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOliviah peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Oliviah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Oliviah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Oliviah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.