Volha
A Slavic form of Olga, carrying the sense "holy, blessed". Around 4,800 women in Poland hold it and hardly any girls receive it now, so it reads as a name passed down rather than handed out fresh.
Volha Pronunciation
What Volha means
Where Volha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Volha is the Belarusian form of Olga, and both names grow from a single Slavic root meaning holy, or set apart and blessed. The word points to someone consecrated, given over to something larger. In Poland the name usually arrives from the east, brought by Belarusian families, and it turns up on an official form at the urząd or in a school class register without much fuss.
The sense of holy has stayed close to this name for a very long time. A woman called Volha becomes Olga the moment she crosses into Polish, and Volha again once she is home. The forms trade places easily.
Volha and Olga stay one name in two spellings, each meaning holy, blessed, święta.
How many people are named Volha
1 in 4708 women in Poland is named Volha. 4,788 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #496 among female names.
Volha as a middle name
Volha is a first name for 4,788 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6947th, between Vivienna (2) and Véronika (2).
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2Véronika
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