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Oliwier

Barely a hundred boys got it a year around 2000; now it turns up more than once in a primary-school register. From the Latin oliva, the olive tree, with Oliwia as its Polish feminine.

Oliwier Pronunciation

Oliwier is pronounced o-LEEV-yer (/ɔˈlivjɛr/).

Related names
Olivera Oliwia
Alive in 2025
59,722
Newborns 2025
2,453
National rank
#166
Next name day
27 May
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What Oliwier means

Where Oliwier comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Oliwier grows from the Latin oliva, the olive tree, and the Polish gloss holds that sense plainly: drzewo oliwne. The name has close relatives abroad: Oliver in English, Olivier in French. The feminine form used in Poland is Oliwia.

For the people who first farmed it, the olive tree meant food and lamp oil. The sense of peace, the olive branch offered as a truce, attached to the name later, long after the Latin root had named a simple crop. So the meaning most Poles feel today sits on top of an older, plainer thing.

In Poland the name climbed fast. In 2000 only 117 boys were given it; by 2019 the yearly count reached 3,202, and it stayed near the top through 2024. Read a class register in a Polish szkoła podstawowa now, and Oliwier shows up more than once.

The root stays put: oliva, the olive tree.

When Oliwier celebrates name day

Oliwier appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 27 May.

Next name day
27 May
Thursday in 2027
Next one in 259 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Oliwier

1 in 357 men in Poland is named Oliwier. 59,722 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #166 among male names.

People with the name Oliwier 2019 → 2025
59,722 +15,685 since 2019
2020 45,847 +1,810
2021 48,916 +3,069
2022 51,813 +2,897
2023 54,528 +2,715
2024 57,126 +2,598
2025 59,722 +2,596

Oliwier's popularity over time

2,453 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #27 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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2,453 newborns with the name Oliwier in 2025
national rank #27 that year

Where Oliwier is most popular

Oliwier is most popular in Świętokrzyskie, 38% above the national average (674 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+17%) and Subcarpathian (+16%). It is least common in Opole and Lower Silesian, 32% and 10% below average respectively.

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Oliwier as a middle name

Oliwier is a first name for 59,722 men in Poland and a middle name for another 7,708, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 115th, between Gerard (7,771) and Albert (7,574).

As a first name
59,722
As a middle name
7,708
first name 89% middle name 11%
Middle-name ranking men

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