Olivya
Olivya was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,306 among girls’ names; 428 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Olivya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Olivya?
#9,306 among girls’ names, 2025
Olivya rose from #10,678 in 2015 to #9,306 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 6.8 per million.
27 babies in 2012, the peak
Olivya peaked in 2012, when 27 girls were given it, #5,212 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,306 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,885 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,949 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,398 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,110 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,809 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,944 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,333 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,199 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,284 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,678 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,149 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,442 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,212 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,682 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,921 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,041 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,007 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,325 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,408 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,407 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,376 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,882 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,854 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,589 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,995 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,310 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,277 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Olivya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Olivya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Olivya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Olivya, and how old are they?
An estimated 425 Americans named Olivya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 326 people named Olivya (324 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 348 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 Olivya?
Olivya is a less common spelling of Olivia: SSA has recorded 428 Olivya and 568,136 Olivia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 643,868 babies since 1880, Olivya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 15,249 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Olivya
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 Olivya and names like it
- Compare Olivya and OliviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sOlivya peaked in 2012.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Olivya since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Olivya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Olivya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with OMost given first.