Ozols
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oak tree (genus Quercus)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈoʊzoʊɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ozols is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Latvia it is the 9th most common surname.
- NONorway1 in 57K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 98K
- SESweden1 in 232K
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)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
280 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oak tree (genus Quercus)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ozols 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 | — | 280 | 1 in 1.2M | 299 | Ozols | 65 |
| NO Norway | — | 96 | 1 in 57K | 96 | Ozols | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 57 | 1 in 98K | 57 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 44 | 1 in 232K | 44 | Ozols | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 18 | 1 in 2.1M | 15 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | #9 | — | — | 1 | Ozols | 80 |
280 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Ozols 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 Latvian, Dižskābaržu dzimtas ģints ("Quercus"), koks ar tumši pelēku, kreveļainu mizu, daivainām lapām, sīkiem ziediem un augli - zīli
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Negaisa mākonis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Jānis Ozols-Zarsb. 1878LVLatvian politician (1878-1968)
- Karlis Ozolsb. 1882LVLatvian diplomat (1882–1941)
- Voldemārs Ozolsb. 1884LVLatvian military commander (1884-1949)
- Arvīds Ozols-Bernēb. 1888LVLatvian discus thrower and shot putter
- Kārlis Ozols-Priednieksb. 1896Latvian poet active in Proletkult (1896-1938)
- Alfrēds Ozolsb. 1898LVLatvian biologist (1898-1971)
- Karlis Ozolsb. 1912LVLatvian-Australian chess player
- Auseklis Ozolsb. 1941LVAmerican artist (1941–2025)
- Dainis Ozolsb. 1966LVLatvian cyclist (born 1966)
- Juris Ozolsb. 1977LVLatvian 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 299 | #62,577 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 280 | #69,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 269 | #76,963 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 96 | #16,008 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 57 | #20,345 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #14,090 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #28,006 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #107,347 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #7,986 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #280,451 |
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
- What does the name Ozols mean, and where does it come from?
- oak tree (genus Quercus) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ozols?
- In the etymology graph, Eiche is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ozols?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈoʊzoʊɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ozols have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 280 people named Ozols, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ozols.
- Where is Ozols most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ozols is densest in Norway — about 1 in 57 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ozols?
- In the United States, the national register counted 280 people named Ozols in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Ozols compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Ozols is the 9th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ozols?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ozolsThe 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, “Ozols” — the 9th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.