Olympia
So rare that most Poles have never met one: fewer than 70 women in the country carry it. The name points back to Greek Olympus, home of the gods, and after years near zero it is turning up on birth records again.
Olympia Pronunciation
Olympia is pronounced o-LIHMP-yah (/ɔˈlɨmpja/).
What Olympia means
Where Olympia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Olympia begins on a mountain. The name comes from Greek Olympos, the height where the old gods were said to hold court, and its short meaning stays near that ground: a dweller on Olympus. The variant Olimpia keeps the same root and changes only one letter.
History hands the name an early bearer. Olympias was the mother of Alexander the Great, a queen of Epirus whose name outlived her by centuries. A later Olympias, a deaconess in Constantinople and a friend of John Chrysostom, entered the Christian calendar as a saint.
In Poland the imieniny fall on the seventeenth of December. Picture the school register: Olimpia sits among the O names, her name-day pencilled into the winter term. The sense is old and fixed. From Olympus, a dweller on Olympus.
How many people are named Olympia
1 in 336475 women in Poland is named Olympia. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4446 among female names.
Olympia's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1774 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Where Olympia is most popular
Olympia is most popular in West Pomeranian, 2460% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+2460%
Olympia as a middle name
Olympia is a first name for 67 women in Poland and a middle name for another 30, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1292nd, between Mija (30) and Sofi (30).
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#1290 Maxine30
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#1291 Mija30
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#1292 Olympia30
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#1293 Sofi30
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#1294 Suzan30