In 2025, 50 US girls were named Olga, making it the 3,201st most common girls’ name of the year, up 64 places from #3,265 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 49 girls named Olga in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #126, reached in 1916. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,691, in 1918. For comparison, it was #2,880 in 2015 and #333 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Olga in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 50 babies with the name. In all, 62,070 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 12,837 babies named Olga.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 523 US girls were named Olga; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 58. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,145 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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