Olesk
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Olesk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 78K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 2M
- RURussia≈1 in 1.8Mfew recordsas Олеск
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Olesk itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
≈80 named Олеск, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Олеск in RU Russia, FI Finland, UA Ukraine.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Olesk 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Lui Oleskb. 1876EEEstonian politician and lawyer (1876-1932)
- Minni Kurs-Oleskb. 1879EEEstonian politician (1879-1940)
- Olli Oleskb. 1906EEEstonian translator (1906-1988)
- Juta Oleskb. 1907EEEstonian medical researcher and physician (1907-1970)
- Olev Oleskb. 1921EEEstonian politician (1921-2017)
- Peeter Oleskb. 1953EEEstonian literary scholar and politician (1953–2021)
- Sirje Oleskb. 1954EEEstonian literary scholar (born 1954)
- Gert Oleskb. 1973EEEstonian footballer and coach (born 1973)
- Arko Oleskb. 1981EEEstonian journalist, quizzer and sportsperson (born 1981)
- Peeter Oleskb. 1993EEEstonian shooter (born 1993)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 261 | #161 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 230 | #233 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 71 | #16,830 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #53,671 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Olesk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 80 people named Олеск in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Olesk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olesk is densest in Finland — about 1 in 78 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olesk?
- In Finland, the national register counted 71 people named Olesk, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Olesk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oleskThe 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, “Olesk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.