Olá
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Olá is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 477(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.4K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.3K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- 1 in 477 (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ola in NO Norway, NG Nigeria, EG Egypt and 3 more.
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.
Sources 2
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olá 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #388 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Ola | 113 |
| EG Egypt | #293 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Ola | 110 |
| SE Sweden | #774 | 21,391 | 1 in 477 | 21K | Ola | 84 |
| SY Syria | #203 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Ola | 34 |
| NO Norway | #969 | 9,313 | 1 in 587 | 33K | Ola | 72 |
| JO Jordan | #465 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ola | 67 |
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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Olá is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, hello; hi (greeting)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mzs, hello, hi
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Olá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named Olá in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ola.
- Where is Olá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olá is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 477 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olá?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 21,391 people named Olá, about 1 in 477 residents.
- How common is Olá compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Olá is the 388th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Olá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ol%C3%A1The 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, “Olá” — the 388th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.