Oliviia
This spelling is only now catching on: 70 newborn girls got it last year, more than ever before, yet it stays rare enough that most Poles have never met one. From Latin, it carries the sense of the olive tree.
Oliviia Pronunciation
What Oliviia means
Where Oliviia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Oliviia is a spelling of Olivia, a name that grows from the Latin word for the olive tree. The oldest root is oliva, the fruit and the tree that gave it. Written with a doubled i, the form looks unusual on a Polish class register, yet its meaning stays fixed: olive tree, drzewo oliwne.
The literary trail is easy to check. Shakespeare gave the name Olivia to a countess in Twelfth Night, written around 1601, and the play carried it into wider English use. From there the olive stayed attached to it.
The olive is a southern tree. It does not grow easily in Polish soil, which makes the name a small import from a warmer coast. A child called Oliviia carries a word older than the plays that spread it, and the sense of it stays simple: the olive tree.
How many people are named Oliviia
1 in 49986 women in Poland is named Oliviia. 451 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1395 among female names.
Oliviia's popularity over time
70 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #295 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2018.
Where parents choose Oliviia
Oliviia is most popular in Lower Silesian, 313% above the national average (55 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+291%) and Lubusz (+19%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Lesser Poland, 78% and 74% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian
+313%1 in 2,857 babies
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Łódź
+291%1 in 3,017 babies
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Lubusz
+19%1 in 9,931 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−78%1 in 54,690 babies
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Lesser Poland
−74%1 in 45,383 babies
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Pomeranian
−52%1 in 24,554 babies
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Lower Silesian+313% 55 born1 in 2,857 babies+313%
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Łódź+291% 42 born1 in 3,017 babies+291%
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Lubusz+19% 5 born1 in 9,931 babies+19%
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West Pomeranian+12% 8 born1 in 10,553 babies+12%
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Masovian+7% 32 born1 in 11,071 babies+7%
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Silesian−7% 18 born1 in 12,644 babies−7%
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Greater Poland−45% 10 born1 in 21,524 babies−45%
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Pomeranian−52% 6 born1 in 24,554 babies−52%
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Lesser Poland−74% 5 born1 in 45,383 babies−74%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−78% 2 born1 in 54,690 babies−78%
Oliviia as a middle name
Oliviia is a first name for 451 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4326th, between Olenia (4) and Olubunmi (4).
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#4324 Oksanna4
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#4325 Olenia4
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#4326 Oliviia4
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#4327 Olubunmi4
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#4328 Olufunmilayo4