Etymology

Proper noun

1. borrowed from Russian; fashionable in several West European countries around 1900.

Quotations

• 1993 Oscar Hijuelos: The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien. ISBN 0-14-023028-9 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.

Proper noun

1. , cognate to Olga.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

Proper noun

1. of origin.

Proper noun

1. of origin.