Olga

Borrowed in the 19th century from Old East Slavic О́льга (Ólĭga), name of a Kievan knyaginya (Saint Olga of Kiev), a medieval form of Helga, Old Norse heilagr (“holy; inviolable, sacred”). Doublet of Helga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoʊlɡə/, /ˈɒlɡə/

Olga

1. A female given name from Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian.
   • 1993, Oscar Hijuelos, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, →ISBN, page 6:

     Olga was named after a Russian ballerina whose picture had once appeared in a local advertisement for a ballet company that was to perform in Philadelphia during the weeks of her impending conception, and who was shown pirouetting on a point of light, impressing their mother.

2. a transliteration of the Russian female given name О́льга (Ólʹga).
   • 1910, Lucy de Grasse Martin, “Magnificent Olga”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume LXXX, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., page 130, column 1:

     OLGA YOURIEVNA SOLENSKY and I followed the black-veiled nun through the chaste, white, highly polished salons of the convent while she explained to me the origin of her curious name, with which certain highly considered Russian saints had had to do. In Russia, it seems, they called her Olga, daughter of Youri.

• Fashionable in several West European countries around 1900.

• Oleg

• algo-, gola, Gola, gaol, algo, Lago, goal, Galo

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha).

• IPA^(key): [ˈolɡa]

Olga f

1. a female given name

Derived from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha).

Olga

1. a female given name

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha).

• IPA^(key): /ˈolʲɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈolʲɡ̊ɑ]

Olga

1. a female given name

Derived from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha). Doublet of Helga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.ka/

Olga f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Olga: Olguson
• daughter of Olga: Olgudóttir

Derived from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha). First recorded as a given name of Finns in 1812.

• IPA^(key): /ˈolɡɑ/, [ˈo̞lɡɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -olɡɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ol‧ga
• Hyphenation^(key): Ol‧ga

Olga

1. a female given name
   • 1973, Aulikki Oksanen, Isosisko ja pikkuveli, Kirjayhtymä, →ISBN, page 155:

     —Tyttö vai poika?
     —Tyttö. Olga Ilona.
     —Olga?
     —Olga niin, kaippa se nimeensä tottuu. Se on isoäidin mukaan. isoäiti oli minulle isä ja äiti ja se on aikamoinen saavutus yhdeltä ihmiseltä.

     —A girl or a boy?
     —A girl. Olga Ilona.
     —Olga?
     —Olga yes, guess she'll get used to her name. It's after her grandmother, she was both a father and a mother to me, and that's an achievement from just one person.

• Oili
• Helka

• Olga is the 212^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,787 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,364 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Derived from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha) in the 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔlɡa/

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Olga

1. a female given name from Russian

Derived from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔlka/

  Rhymes: -ɔlka

Olga f (proper noun, genitive singular Olgu)

1. a female given name

Derived from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha). First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1858.

Olga f

1. a female given name
2. a transliteration of the Russian female given name О́льга (Ólʹga)

• Elga

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Olga was the only given name of 21 409 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010, including Russian speakers.

Derived from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha) around 1800.

Olga

1. a female given name

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha), from Old Norse heilagr, from Proto-Germanic *hailagaz. Doublet of Helga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlɡa
• Syllabification: Ol‧ga

Olga f (male equivalent Oleg)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Olga

• Olga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha).

• Hyphenation: Ol‧ga

Olga f (plural Olgas)

1. a female given name from Russian О́льга (Ólʹga) or Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha), equivalent to English Olga

• IPA^(key): /ˈol.ɡa/

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Olga f (genitive/dative Olgăi)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Olga or Russian О́льга (Ólʹga)

• Olguța

• IPA^(key): /ôːlɡa/

Ȏlga f (Cyrillic spelling О̑лга)

1. a female given name from Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian, equivalent to English Olga

• “Olga”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

• IPA^(key): /óːlɡa/

Ólga f

1. a female given name from Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	Olga
gen. sing.	Olge
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Olga	Olgi	Olge
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Olge	Olg	Olg
dative (dajȃlnik)	Olgi	Olgama	Olgam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Olgo	Olgi	Olge
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Olgi	Olgah	Olgah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Olgo	Olgama	Olgami

• “Olga”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha).

• IPA^(key): /ˈolɡa/ [ˈol.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -olɡa
• Syllabification: Ol‧ga

Olga f

1. a female given name from Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian

Derived from Russian and Ukrainian О́льга (Ólʹha). First recorded in Sweden in 1843.

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Olga c (genitive Olgas)

1. a female given name