Olsan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Olsan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: "Adın duyulsun, ünlü ol" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.6M(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

127 people, 2010

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.6M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

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(measured from records)

recorded in Turkish

"Adın duyulsun, ünlü ol" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Olsan 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 Olsan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1271 in 2.6M144——
TR Türkiye———Olsan10
IN India——4——

127 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; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Olsan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Olšan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Olšan

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

25 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Olsan 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 vls, always

    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 7 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Olsan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000144#112,967
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010127#133,048
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020117#144,270
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#43,496
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#282,211
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Olsan mean?
Recorded meaning: "Adın duyulsun, ünlü ol" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
In which country does Olsan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 127 people named Olsan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Olsan most common?
Olsan is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.6 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Olsan?
In the United States, the national register counted 127 people named Olsan in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.

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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, “Olsan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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