Ólan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ólan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 303K
  • NONorway1 in 391K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,099 people, 2010

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Olan in US United States.

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)

recorded in Romanian

subst., dar cu precadere < tc. oglan fiu". 1. - b. (16 A I 154) ; Oldn1 easca si -esti ss. ; -escul (Glos). 2. Old nelul m-te. 3. Oldnifa t. 4. Cf. Ulan boier (Rel) ; - Ilea, mold. (16 A I 284) ; cf. Ulan-Bator, oral In Mongolia.

Sources 3

  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ólan 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.

Where Ólan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0991 in 303K1.1KOlan6
PL Poland651 in 589K35——
FI Finland301 in 186K30——
ES Spain251 in 2M25—1
NO Norway141 in 391K14—1
SE Sweden61 in 1.7M12——

1,099 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ólan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Olan, O-Lan, Olán, O'Lan, Olàn

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ólan under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ólan a male or female name?
Ólan 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.
In which country does Ólan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Ólan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olan.
Where is Ólan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ólan is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ólan?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,099 people named Ólan in 2010, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B3lan

The 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, “Ólan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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