Olajos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oily (smeared with or containing oil)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Olajos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 169K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 260K
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)oily (smeared with or containing oil)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Olajos 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.
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Domokos Olajosb. 1885HUHungarian journalist, contributing editor
- Magda Olajos Váczyb. 1909ROHungarian journalist from Romania (1909-1999)
- Béla Olajosb. 1910HUHungarian painter (1910-1991)
- István Olajosb. 1915ROHungarian painter (1915-1944)
- Terézia Olajosb. 1941HUHungarian linguist and classical philologist (1941-2018)
- György Olajosb. 1953HUHungarian sculptor, graphic designer, textile artist
- Sándor Olajosb. 1958HUHungarian futsal player
- Péter Olajosb. 1968HUHungarian politician
- Péter Olajosb. 1976HUHungarian mathematician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #132,328 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4 | #22,185 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Olajos mean, and where does it come from?
- oily (smeared with or containing oil) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Olajos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 435 people named Olajos in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olajos.
- How common is the name Olajos?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 25 people named Olajos in 2021, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olajosThe 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, “Olajos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.