Olao

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Variante de Olaf

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Olao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 158K(inferred from the name graph)
  • KEKenya≈1 in 187K
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 3.5M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈690 people, est.

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 158K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Variante de Olaf

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Where in the world(measured from records)

Olao 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 Olao is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈690 est.≈1 in 158K—Olao18
KE Kenya≈290 est.≈1 in 187K—Olao11
NG Nigeria≈61 est.≈1 in 3.5M—Olao8
US United States≈4 est.≈1 in 78M—Olao8
CA Canada≈2 est.≈1 in 17M—Olao4
IT Italy≈2 est.≈1 in 35Mlisted—2

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.

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)

Olao is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines

    Also written Ola-O

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Олао

21 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18901900191019201930Olao Gaggioli, b. 1897Olao Cerini, b. 1906Olao Pivari, b. 1921

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)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

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 Olao mean, and where does it come from?
Variante de Olaf Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
In which country does Olao have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 693 people named Olao in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olao.
How common is the name Olao?
Mondonomo estimates about 690 people in the Philippines have Olao as their first surname, about 1 in 158 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Olao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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