Olteanu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oltĕanu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olteanu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common surname.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
- MDMoldova≈1 in 25K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olteanu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #47 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Olteanu | 93 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Olteanu | 35 |
| ES Spain | — | 979 | 1 in 51K | 979 | Olteanu | 46 |
| US United States | — | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 203 | Olteanu | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 487K | 23 | Olteanu | 57 |
| MD Moldova | #396 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Olteanu | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 71 | 1 in 118K | 71 | — | 8 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ioan Olteanub. 1839RORomanian bishop (1839-1877)
- Constantin Olteanub. 1928RORomanian general and politician
- Draga Olteanu Mateib. 1933RORomanian actress
- Ioana Olteanub. 1966RORomanian rower
- Bogdan Olteanub. 1971RORomanian politician
- George Olteanub. 1974RORomanian boxer
- Silviu Olteanub. 1978ROboxer
- Vlad Olteanub. 1996RORomanian association football player
- Alexandru Olteanub. 2000RORomanian professional footballer
- Mircea Olteanufilm editor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 979 | #4,481 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 979 | #4,474 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 203 | #96,193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 71 | #14,356 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 23 | #82,763 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Olteanu?
- A machine transcription gives /oltĕanu/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Olteanu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Olteanu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olteanu.
- How common is the name Olteanu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 979 people named Olteanu, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Olteanu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Olteanu is the 47th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olteanuThe 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, “Olteanu” — the 47th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.