Olimpia
Greek at root, the name of someone from Mount Olympus, home of the old gods. It stays genuinely rare in Poland: only about 3,400 women carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Olimpia Pronunciation
Olimpia is pronounced o-LEEMP-yah (/ɔˈlimpja/).
What Olimpia means
Where Olimpia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Olimpia comes from Greek, and it points to a single place: Mount Olympus, the peak the ancients made home to their gods. The short meaning given in Polish is pochodząca z Olimpu, in English simply from Mount Olympus. So the name marks a person by the geography of the divine, someone belonging to the mountain rather than any single god upon it.
The oldest famous bearer is Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, a Macedonian queen whose fierce loyalty to her son outlived her by centuries. Later the Church remembered a different Olympias, a wealthy deaconess of Constantinople who stayed faithful to John Chrysostom after his exile in 404. She died in 408, and Polish calendars keep her name-day for Olimpia on 17 December, alongside 25 July.
On a school register the name reads clearly. It has no standard Polish diminutive fixed to it. It stays whole. What holds constant is the root, Olympus, the mountain from which the whole name descends.
When Olimpia celebrates name day
Olimpia appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 17 December.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Olimpia
1 in 6588 women in Poland is named Olimpia. 3,422 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #563 among female names.
Olimpia's popularity over time
38 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #406 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Olimpia is most popular
Olimpia is most popular in West Pomeranian, 169% above the national average (23 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+82%) and Lubusz (+79%). It is least common in Subcarpathian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 67% and 64% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian23 girls born+169%
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Lower Silesian29 girls born+82%
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Lubusz9 girls born+79%
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Silesian38 girls born+65%
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Pomeranian23 girls born+54%
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Opole7 girls born+50%
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Greater Poland25 girls born+15%
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Lesser Poland19 girls born−17%
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Masovian25 girls born−30%
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Warmian-Masurian4 girls born−45%
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Łódź5 girls born−61%
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Lublin4 girls born−62%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian4 girls born−64%
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Subcarpathian4 girls born−67%
Olimpia as a middle name
Olimpia is a first name for 3,422 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2,548, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 177th, between Romualda (2,609) and Marika (2,543).
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#175 Tamara2,642
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#176 Romualda2,609
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#177 Olimpia2,548
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#178 Marika2,543
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#179 Ludmiła2,526