Oļegs
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Оле́г (Olég), Oleg
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oļegs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 212(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 17K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 212 (inferred from the name graph)
8,875 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Olegs in GB United Kingdom, NO Norway, EE Estonia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Оле́г (Olég), Oleg
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oļegs counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #39 | 8,875 | 1 in 212 | 8.9K | Oļegs | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Olegs | 57 |
| SE Sweden | — | 64 | 1 in 159K | 64 | — | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 62 | 1 in 617K | 62 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Olegs | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 304 | Olegs | 9 |
| EE Estonia | #690 | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Olegs | 5 |
| IS Iceland | — | 21 | 1 in 17K | 21 | — | — |
8,875 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Oļegs is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Oleg the Wiseb. 845SEnot in their usual nameprince of Kiev
- Oleg Antonovb. 1906RUnot in their usual nameSoviet aeroplane designer (1906-1984)
- Oleg Yefremovb. 1927RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor and theatre director (1927–2000)
- Oleg Tabakovb. 1935RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor and theatre director (1935–2018)
- Oleg Yankovskyb. 1944RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor (1944-2009)
- Oleg Gazmanovb. 1951RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer (1951)
- Oleh Protasovb. 1964UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian association football player
- Oleg Salenkob. 1969RUnot in their usual nameRussian-Ukrainian footballer (born 1969)
- Oleg Sentsovb. 1976UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian filmmaker and activist (born 1976)
- Oleg Shatovb. 1990RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 8.9K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 8.8K | #43 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 62 | #2,894 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 54 | #2,954 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Oļegs mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Оле́г (Olég), Oleg Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Oļegs a male or female name?
- Oļegs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Oļegs?
- In the etymology graph, Oleh, Oleg and Helge are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Oļegs have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Oļegs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oļegs.
- Where is Oļegs most common?
- Oļegs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 212 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Oļegs?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 8,875 people named Oļegs, about 1 in 212 residents.
- How common is Oļegs compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Oļegs is the 39th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/o%C4%BCegsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Oļegs” — the 39th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.