Olean
loc · Latin script
Meaning: city, NY
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Olean is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2M
- BRBrazil1 in 5.6M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
245 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
city, NY
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olean 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 245 | 1 in 1.4M | 248 | Olean | 139 |
| BR Brazil | 38 | 1 in 5.6M | 43 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Olean | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Olean | 4 |
| RU Russia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 88M | — | Olean | 2 |
245 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)
Olean 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.
In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of olear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 248 | #72,905 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 245 | #78,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 235 | #85,600 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 38 | #126,822 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Olean mean, and where does it come from?
- city, NY Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Olean have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 245 people named Olean, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olean.
- Where is Olean most common?
- Olean is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Olean?
- In the United States, the national register counted 245 people named Olean in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million 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/oleanThe 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, “Olean”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.