Olympia
About Olympia
With its relation to Mount Olympus, home of the Greek gods, and to the Olympic games, this name has an athletic, goddess-like aura, making it the perfect Olivia substitute.
A well-known art reference is the famous 1865 painting of a reclining nude by Edouard Manet titled Olympia. Contemporary bearers include former Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe and actress Olympia Dukakis.
Pronounced oh-LIM-pee-uh.
As of October 2026, Olympia ranked #2210 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #854 in 1917, Nameberry popularity #594.
Editor's take: The name Olympia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "from Mount Olympus".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #4,626 | 31 | 17.4 |
| 2015 | #3,829 | 40 | 22.4 |
| 2016 | #3,212 | 51 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | #2,769 | 62 | 35.9 |
| 2018 | #2,501 | 71 | 41.7 |
| 2019 | #2,498 | 71 | 42.3 |
| 2020 | #2,491 | 70 | 43.3 |
| 2021 | #2,338 | 78 | 47.5 |
| 2022 | #2,521 | 71 | 43.3 |
| 2023 | #2,606 | 68 | 42.4 |
| 2024 | #2,473 | 73 | 45.1 |
| 2025 | #2,210 | 84 | 52.3 |
World rankings
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Olympia on lists
Famous Olympias
- Olympias
Queen consort of Philip II of Macedonia, mother of Alexander the Great
- Olympia Montana Valance
Australian actress
- Olympia Brown
American suffragist and Universalist minister
- Olympia Dukakis
American actress
- Olympia Jean Snowe
U.S. Senator from Maine
- Olympia Campbell
English actress and model
- Olympia Le
Tan, American fashion designer
- Maria
Olympia, Princess of Greece (b. 1996), daughter of Crown Prince Pavlos
- Charlotte Olympia Dellal
English fashion designer
- Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. (b. 2017)
Daughter of athlete Serena Williams & Alexis Ohanian
- Olympia Lightning Bolt (b. 2020)
daughter of sprinter Usain Bolt and Kasi Bennett
Olympia in pop culture
- Olympia Biddeford
main character in "Fortune's Rocks" by Anita Shreve
- Olympia Binewski
a main character in Katherine Dunn's "Geek Love"
- Olympia Squires
sweetheart of the Uncommercial Traveller's childhood in "The Uncommercial Traveller" (1860,8) by Charles Dickens
- Olympia Peabody
fiance to Edward Brent,Foster and perpetual grand mistress of the Boston Society for the Abolition of Vice in "The Panel" (1912) by Ford Madox Ford
- The Olympia
a well,known music hall in Paris
- Olympia
capital city of Washington State, USA
- Olympia
Gym Leader in video game Pokemon X and Y
- Olympia Wingfield
hybrid of a Nightmare and a vampire bat in "Monster High" show and series
- Olympia Timbers
a character from the Nickelodeon cartoon "Welcome To The Wayne"
Variations & nicknames
- OlimpiaSpanish
- OlympiadFrench
- OlympeFrench
- OlympienneFrench
- OlympieGerman