In 2025, 16 US girls were named Oliva, making it the 7,059th most common girls’ name of the year, down 958 places from #6,101 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 20 girls named Oliva in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #889, reached in 1889. The most girls given the name in a single year was 34, in 2003. For comparison, it was #4,946 in 2015 and #5,894 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oliva in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 5 babies. In all, 2,008 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 293 babies named Oliva.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 212 US girls were named Oliva; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Oliver (270,680 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.