Olof
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The letter "O" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/u:lof/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olof is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 93(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 339
- FIFinland1 in 1.8K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 93 (inferred from the name graph)
109,206 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The letter "O" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olof 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.
109,206 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Olof 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.
Swedish form of OLAF . St Olof, King of Sweden (d. c. 950) was murdered by his rebellious heathen subjects for refusing to sacrifice to idols. Variants: Olov, Oluf .
as a word
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)
- Olaf II of Denmarkb. 1370NOnot in their usual nameKing of Denmark and Norway
- Torbern Olof Bergmanb. 1735SESwedish chemist (1735-1784)
- Carl Larssonb. 1853SEnot in their usual nameSwedish painter (1853-1919)
- Hannes Alfvénb. 1908SEnot in their usual nameSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Thorbjörn Fälldinb. 1926SEnot in their usual nameSwedish 20th century prime minister (1926-2016)
- Olof Palmeb. 1927SESwedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86)
- Daniel Westlingb. 1973SEnot in their usual namehusband of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
- Andreas Norlénb. 1973SEnot in their usual nameSpeaker of the Riksdag
- Olof Mellbergb. 1977SESwedish football manager (born 1977)
- Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåneb. 2016SEnot in their usual nameson of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 109K | #23 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 17K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 17K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 16K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 15K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 15K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 15K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 14K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 14K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 14K | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Olof mean, and where does it come from?
- The letter "O" in the Swedish spelling alphabet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Olof?
- A machine transcription gives /u:lof/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Olof a male or female name?
- Olof 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 Olof?
- In the etymology graph, Olaf, Ole and Olavo are forms of the same name in other languages; Ola and Olle are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Olof have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 109 thousand people named Olof, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olof.
- Where is Olof most common?
- Olof is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 93 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Olof?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 109,206 people named Olof, about 1 in 93 residents.
- How common is Olof compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Olof is the 98th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Olof?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olofThe 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, “Olof” — the 98th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.