Oliviya
Most Poles have never met one: only around twenty women carry it. A foreign spelling of the far more common Oliwia, from the Latin for "olive tree".
Oliviya Pronunciation
What Oliviya means
Where Oliviya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oliviya grows from the Latin word oliva, the olive tree. Rome grew the tree for its oil and its fruit, and the name kept that plain sense: drzewo oliwne, an olive tree that bears.
In Russian and Ukrainian families the name is written Оливия, and Oliviya is how it reaches a Latin alphabet. The olive never grew in Kyiv or Moscow. It arrived as a word, an import from warmer coasts, and the name traveled the same road as the goods.
Poland knows the name mostly in its variant Oliwia. Read a class register in Gdańsk and you may find three of them. The forms sit close. Oliviya keeps the eastern spelling, Oliwia the Polish one, and both point back to the same tree.
How many people are named Oliviya
1 in 1073516 women in Poland is named Oliviya. 21 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9691 among female names.
Oliviya's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1771 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where Oliviya is most popular
Oliviya is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 girls born+510%