Entry № 7758 · Old Norse origin

Olga Olga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OHL-gah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Holy (Saint Olga of Kiev, first Christian ruler of Russia)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Russian)

A name that means "holy (saint olga of kiev, first christian ruler of russia)".

Olga is the East Slavic form of the Old Norse Helga ("holy, blessed"). Saint Olga of Kiev (c. 890-969) was the regent of Kievan Rus' (945-963) and the first Christian ruler of what would become Russia — baptized in Constantinople in 957, she set the stage for her grandson Vladimir's mass conversion of Rus' in 988.

Subject of icons throughout Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Holy (Saint Olga of Kiev, first Christian ruler of Russia) — a Old Norse name.

The name in its native script.

Ольга
Transliteration
Ol'ga
Pronunciation
/ ˈɒl.ɡə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Olga stands.

Olga does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Olgas before her.

Real people
Saint Olga of Kiev
Regent of Kievan Rus'.
c. 890 – 969
Olga Korbut
Belarusian Olympic gymnast.
born 1955
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish Nobel laureate in Literature.
born 1962
In fiction
Olga
Chekhov's Three Sisters.
1901

Names connected to Olga.

The number behind Olga.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Olga reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.