Olegs
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Olegs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 212(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 17K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 28K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 212 (inferred from the name graph)
8,875 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oļegs in LV Latvia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olegs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #39 | 8,875 | 1 in 212 | 8.9K | Oļegs | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Olegs | 57 |
| SE Sweden | — | 64 | 1 in 159K | 64 | — | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 62 | 1 in 617K | 62 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Olegs | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 304 | Olegs | 9 |
| EE Estonia | #690 | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Olegs | 5 |
| IS Iceland | — | 21 | 1 in 17K | 21 | — | — |
8,875 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Oļegs Antropovsb. 1947LVvolleyball player (1947–2023)
- Oļegs Hļebņikovsb. 1953LVLatvian politician
- Oļegs Karavajevsb. 1961LVLatvian footballer (1961–2020)
- Oļegs Znaroksb. 1963DELatvian ice hockey player (born 1963)
- Oļegs Maļuhinsb. 1969LVLatvian biathlete
- Oļegs Blagonadeždinsb. 1973LVLatvian footballer
- Oļegs Meļehsb. 1982LVracing cyclist
- Oļegs Malašenoksb. 1986LVLatvian footballer
- Oļegs Laizānsb. 1987LVfootballer
- Oļegs Timofejevsb. 1988LVLatvian association football player (born 1988)
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #82,075 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Olegs a male or female name?
- Olegs 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 Olegs have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Olegs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oļegs.
- Where is Olegs most common?
- Olegs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 212 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Olegs?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 8,875 people named Olegs, about 1 in 212 residents.
- How common is Olegs compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Olegs is the 39th most common given name of 11,601 given names 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/olegsThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Olegs” — the 39th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.