Olen
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɑɫən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olen is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 126K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 177K
- ALAlbania1 in 93K
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)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)
2,646 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Olen 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 | 2,646 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Olen | 233 |
| IT Italy | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 157K | 1 | Olen | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 177K | 11 | Olen | 28 |
| CA Canada | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 1 | Olen | 23 |
| PH Philippines | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 492K | — | Olen | 22 |
| SG Singapore | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Olen | 3 |
| AL Albania | 33 | 1 in 93K | 33 | — | — |
2,646 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)Olen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "hart."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Dutch, a hamlet in Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten, North Brabant, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, first-person singular present indicative of olema
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, first-person singular present indicative of olla
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Frederick Olen Mercerb. 1901USUnited States federal judge
- Al Baldockb. 1929USnot in their usual nameAmerican football coach
- Olen Underwoodb. 1942USAmerican football player
- Robert Olen Butlerb. 1945USAmerican fiction writer
- Fred Olen Rayb. 1954USAmerican filmmaker
- Olen Steinhauerb. 1970USAmerican writer
- Olen Gunnlaugsonb. 1974CAresearcher and university professor
- Olen Cesarib. 1975ALAlbanian violinist
- Olen Zellwegerb. 2003CACanadian ice hockey player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 912 | #25,466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 696 | #32,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 632 | #37,808 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 11 | #134,717 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Olen a male or female name?
- Olen is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- How do you pronounce Olen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑɫən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Olen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Olen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olen.
- Where is Olen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olen is densest in Albania — about 1 in 93 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,646 people named Olen in 2020, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Olen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olenThe 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, “Olen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.