Meaning and history
Oľga is the Russian form of the Old Norse Helga. Saint Olga, probably a Varangian, was the 10th-century wife of Kievan Rus ruler Igor I and governed as regent for their son Svyatoslav for 18 years after Igor's death. Baptized in Constantinople, she tried unsuccessfully to convert her subjects to Christianity, a goal later achieved by her grandson Vladimir. Another well-known bearer is retired Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut (1955-), whose name is Vol'ha in her native Belarusian.
20062006: 122 births, rank #1,709
2007: 111 births, rank #1,877
2008: 132 births, rank #1,685
2009: 118 births, rank #1,822
2010: 60 births, rank #2,870
20112011: 63 births, rank #2,763
2012: 86 births, rank #2,189
2013: 55 births, rank #3,005
2014: 79 births, rank #2,323
2015: 61 births, rank #2,846
20162016: 47 births, rank #3,379
2017: 58 births, rank #2,873
2018: 53 births, rank #3,050
2019: 48 births, rank #3,272
2020: 54 births, rank #2,966
20212021: 56 births, rank #2,958
2022: 54 births, rank #3,033
2023: 54 births, rank #3,047
2024: 49 births, rank #3,225
20252025: 50 births, rank #3,167
Olga moved from #832 to #968 for girls between 1994 and 1996. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 1,691 births.