Olga

Where Olga comes from

Borrowed in the 19th century from Old East Slavic О́льга (Ólĭga), name of a Kievan knyaginya (Saint Olga of Kiev), a medieval form of Helga, Old Norse heilagr (“holy; inviolable, sacred”). Doublet of Helga.
— Wiktionary's entry for Olga
  • Russian
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #215 among girls — 50 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1916
    Peak, #126
    1,685 babies named Olga — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1930
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #221.
  4. 1962
    Olga Tokarczuk born
    Polish writer and activist
  5. 1979
    Olga Kurylenko born
    Ukrainian-French actress and model
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian.
Namesakes
  • Olga Tokarczuk · Polish writer and activist, born 1962
  • Olga Kurylenko · Ukrainian-French actress and model, born 1979
  • Olga of Kiev · princess of Kiev, Orthodox saint, 890–969
  • Olga Korbut · Belarusian gymnast (*1955), born 1955
  • Olga Constantinovna of Russia · Queen of the Hellenes, 1851–1926

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.