Olympia

#2,194 for girls in 2025, 84 births

Peak · girls
1917 · 65 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,644
since 1897

Olympia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Olympia has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201925peak #849, 1917girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#2,19484
2024#2,46273
2023#2,58868
2022#2,51071
2021#2,32778
2020#2,46870
2019#2,48271
2018#2,47871
2017#2,74462
2016#3,18251
2015#3,76740
2014#4,54431
2013#3,91838
2012#4,83629
2011#5,93522
2010#4,86029
2009#6,31721
2008#5,75024
2007#5,70924
2006#5,90622
2005#6,52818
2004#4,94926
2003#6,88516
2002#7,04515
2001#5,00923
2000#5,93718
1999#5,03921
1998#4,14227
1997#5,41718
1996#3,56931
1995#4,84620
1994#4,84520
1993#4,99819
1992#3,96826
1991#2,93539
1990#2,90039
1989#3,56628
1988#2,80337
1987#3,10130
1986#4,53917
1985#3,62123
1984#2,57436
1983#3,34024
1982#1,87357
1981#1,248104
1980#2,39140
1979#3,66821
1978#2,01247
1977#1,73659
1976#1,63860
1975#1,71355
1974#1,93744
1973#1,78848
1972#3,06221
1971#6,0068
1970#4,49212
1969#5,4568
1968#2,87420
1967#6,0426
1966#3,74012
1965#3,26415
1964#6,0096
1963#3,17616
1962#3,16116
1961#3,46014
1960#2,90418
1959#3,82711
1958#2,97216
1957#3,15014
1956#2,15126
1955#2,72517
1954#3,15713
1953#2,92114
1952#3,55210
1951#3,10612
1950#3,05212
1949#2,85013
1948#4,6516
1947#2,35418
1946#3,03411
1945
1944#2,94610
1943#2,35215
1942#1,98119
1941#2,27214
1940#2,42412
1939#1,73120
1938#2,11315
1937#1,91417
1936#1,95016
1935#1,84518
1934#1,69720
1933#1,77319
1932#1,68521
1931#1,28732
1930#2,11016
1929#1,37031
1928#1,11546
1927#1,30337
1926#1,18142
1925#97658
1924#1,20643
1923#1,00556
1922#1,03053
1921#96958
1920#1,02153
1919#1,21638
1918#93758
1917#84965
1916#1,12739
1915#1,04041
1914#1,05932
1913#90135
1912#1,47714
1911#1,17115
1910#1,42111
1909#1,29011
1908#1,20312
1907#1,8216
1906#1,22910
1905#1,5387
1904#1,3648
1903#1,2049
1902
1901#1,06710
1900#1,3199
1899#1,5965
1898#1,1719
1897#1,0949
1896
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1894
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1892
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1880
First appearance
1897

The first year at least five girls were named Olympia! It came in at #1,094, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1902, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Olympia
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 268 spots since 2024 (#2,462#2,194)
  • 274 spots since 2020 (#2,468#2,194)
  • 1,573 spots since 2015 (#3,767#2,194)
  • Biggest jump: 576 spots in 1913 (#1,477#901)
  • Biggest drop: 279 spots in 1919 (#937#1,216)
Rise & fade · girls
20 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1897
  • Peaked 1917 at #849 (65 births)
  • Births halved by 1929, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1917–1918
Share of babies · girls
1 in 16,039
  • Highest: 1 in 16,039 girls born in 1981 were named Olympia (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 19,134 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #849 in 1917, was only 1 in 16,635 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 13.1% of all girls named Olympia (477) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s23#1,094 (1897)#1,287
1900s82#1,067 (1901)#1,337
1910s348#849 (1917)#1,120
1920s477#969 (1921)#1,118
1930s194#1,287 (1931)#1,811
1940s118#1,981 (1942)#2,763
1950s145#2,151 (1956)#3,061
1960s131#2,874 (1968)#4,009
1970s375#1,638 (1976)#2,805
1980s396#1,248 (1981)#2,906
1990s260#2,900 (1990)#4,266
2000s207#4,949 (2004)#6,004
2010s444#2,478 (2018)#3,875
2020s444#2,194 (2025)#2,425

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Olympia in 1925

girls
#976
58 births · 1 in 20,989 girls

Top girls' names in 1925

  1. #1Mary70,586
  2. #2Dorothy38,570
  3. #3Betty32,812
  4. #4Helen29,173
  5. #5Margaret24,463
  6. #6Ruth22,247
  7. #7Virginia17,490
  8. #8Doris16,075
  9. #9Mildred14,453
  10. #10Elizabeth13,936
  11. #976Olympia58
More about 1925

girls

1,217,384 girls got a published name in 1925; 1 in 20,989 of them was named Olympia, which outranked 83.1% of the 5,771 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Olympia
  1. #970Maurice59
  2. #970Oneta59
  3. #970Theola59
  4. #976Olympia58
  5. #976Adelia58
  6. #976Brenda58
  7. #976Herminia58
  8. #988Alease57
  9. #988Amparo57
  10. #988Bobbye57

Tied with 11 names at #976; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1924
Risers
  1. 605Nanette#1,475#870
  2. 417Paulina#1,258#841
  3. 353Estela#1,258#905
  4. 323Delois#1,123#800
  5. 313Veola#1,301#988
Fallers
  1. 610Kathlyn#999#1,609
  2. 396Izetta#951#1,347
  3. 355Loma#941#1,296
  4. 345Phylis#880#1,225
  5. 309Eris#728#1,037

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1925