Olympia
Feminine · “of Olympus”
Olympia is the sanctuary where the games were held — and Mount Olympus, three hundred kilometres away, is a different place entirely.
How old is the name Olympia?
Olympia first appears in US birth records in 1897 — 128 years ago. The typical Olympia alive today was born around 1979, making them about 46 years old. About 2,500 people named Olympia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Olympia most popular?
Olympia peaked in 1917, reaching #849 nationally. Today it ranks #2194, 1,345 places below that high. See the whole 1917 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Olympos to Olympia
The story of Olympia
The games at Olympia ran for over a thousand years and were counted as the basis of Greek chronology. Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, carried the name and was a formidable political figure in her own right. Olympia appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
of Olympus
From the Greek Olympia, the sanctuary of Zeus in the Peloponnese where the games were held. Mount Olympus in Thessaly is a separate place; both take a name whose deeper origin is pre-Greek and unrecovered. The formation is transparent even where the root is not.
How the name formed
- Olympos
- Olympia
Related forms: Ὀλυμπία · Olimpia · Olimpia
Pronouncing Olympia
oh-LIM-pee-uh
Four syllables, stress on the second. Greek says oh-lim-PEE-ah.
Nicknames for Olympia
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1897
- Most girls named
- 1981104 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #849reached in 1917
- Change vs 2022
- +18.3%84 in 2025, from 71
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Olympia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ὀλυμπία in Greek — transliteration
- Olimpia in Italian — related form
- Olimpia in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Texas.
Olympias among us
people named Olympia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 19,134 born in 2025 was named Olympia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Olympia
- #2194
- Olympia on the 2025 chart
- #864
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Olympia went to 84 girls in 2025, but Olimpia is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 96, which makes it the 864th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,330 places above the chart.
- Olympia84
- Olimpia12
About 1 girl in 16,742 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 19,134 for Olympia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Alverda test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Olympia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alverda climbed just as high around 1901, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alverda's path sketches the road Olympia is walking now.
Olympia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Olympia is headed
Olympia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Olympia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Olympia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Olympia and Mount Olympus are separate places is a genuinely good correction.
- Alexander's formidable mother carries the related form.
- Pia is available as a short form that is a real Italian name.
- It reads as a place name and a games name.
- Four syllables make it long for everyday use.
- The root behind Olympus is genuinely unrecovered.
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Frequently asked
- How many Olympias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Olympia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Olympia?
- Olympia is the most-used spelling in US records — 84 of the 96 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Olimpia.
- How popular is the name Olympia in 2025?
- Olympia ranks #2194 among US girl names in 2025, with 84 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Olympia?
- About 1 in every 19,134 US girls born in 2025 was named Olympia — 84 in all.
- Will my child share the name Olympia with classmates?
- Olympia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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