Olympia
Olympia was given to 84 girls in 2025, #2,210 among girls’ names; 3,644 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Olympia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 9 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Olympia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Olympia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Olympia is “a female given name from Ancient Greek; quite rare in English.” Its etymology gives the sense “Olympus” (Ὄλυμπος).
From Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπία (Olumpía), from Ὄλυμπος (Ólumpos, “Olympus”).
/əˈlɪmpi.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Olympia?
#2,210 among girls’ names, 2025
Olympia rose from #3,829 in 2015 to #2,210 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 22.4 to 52.3 per million.
104 babies in 1981, the peak
Olympia peaked in 1981, when 104 girls were given it, #1,250 among girls’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #2,210 | 52.3 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,483 | 45.1 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,608 | 42.4 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,521 | 43.3 |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,338 | 47.5 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,491 | 43.3 |
| 2019 | 71 | #2,498 | 42.3 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,501 | 41.7 |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,770 | 35.9 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,213 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,829 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,624 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,981 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,934 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,093 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,940 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,492 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,903 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,851 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,078 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,744 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,035 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,120 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,342 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,126 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,148 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,156 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,208 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,562 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,602 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,963 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,967 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,132 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,050 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,969 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,931 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,641 | 15.2 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,845 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,140 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,671 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,698 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,608 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,398 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,893 | 33.7 |
| 1981 | 104 | #1,250 | 62.3 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,423 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,746 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 47 | #2,036 | 30.7 |
| 1977 | 59 | #1,751 | 38.5 |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,652 | 41.0 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,724 | 37.7 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,951 | 30.0 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,800 | 32.9 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,140 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,421 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,685 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,822 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,946 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,572 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,884 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,369 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,553 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,288 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,255 | 8.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,558 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,962 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,972 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,054 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,259 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,182 | 13.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,807 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,278 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,056 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,723 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,239 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,180 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,959 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,103 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,423 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,165 | 7.0 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,095 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,419 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,022 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,357 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,538 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,774 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,198 | 13.6 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,977 | 16.0 |
| 1936 | 16 | #2,002 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,897 | 17.2 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,757 | 19.2 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,824 | 18.9 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,735 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,310 | 30.1 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,184 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,387 | 27.8 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,128 | 39.9 |
| 1927 | 37 | #1,325 | 31.0 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,193 | 35.4 |
| 1925 | 58 | #984 | 47.6 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,221 | 34.4 |
| 1923 | 56 | #1,011 | 46.4 |
| 1922 | 53 | #1,042 | 44.1 |
| 1921 | 58 | #983 | 47.0 |
| 1920 | 53 | #1,026 | 44.2 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,234 | 33.6 |
| 1918 | 58 | #946 | 50.1 |
| 1917 | 65 | #854 | 60.1 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,140 | 37.3 |
| 1915 | 41 | #1,053 | 41.7 |
| 1914 | 32 | #1,074 | 42.0 |
| 1913 | 35 | #910 | 56.0 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,523 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,219 | 35.9 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,492 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,351 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,253 | 35.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,994 | 18.8 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,294 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,653 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,450 | 29.1 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,284 | 34.4 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,116 | 41.8 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,398 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,777 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,238 | 34.8 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,144 | 38.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Olympia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Olympia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 127 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Olympia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Olympia, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 66% of the 3,644 Americans ever recorded as Olympia. The median Olympia alive today is 32 years old; half are between 9 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 2,426 people named Olympia (2,413 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,117 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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 | 79 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 205 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 447 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 533 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 349 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 803 |
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 Olympia born?
The states with the most babies named Olympia are New York, California and Massachusetts, with 66% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 463 | #1,291 | 1.7× |
| California | 227 | #1,397 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 109 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 84 | #2,577 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 78 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 52 | #1,310 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 35 | #2,404 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 34 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Olympia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Olympia is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Olympia 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,064 babies since 1880, Olympia is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 96 babies (88%), again the 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 Olympia
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 Olympia and names like it
- Compare Olympia and OlimpiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sOlympia peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Olympia since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Olympia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Olympia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Olympia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with OMost given first.