Óli
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ouːlɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Óli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 61K
- DKDenmark1 in 143K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,084 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oli in US United States, DK Denmark, SE Sweden.
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 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Óli 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 1,084 | 1 in 195K | 1.4K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 429 | 1 in 775K | 558 | Oli | 38 |
| IS Iceland | #403 | 293 | 1 in 1.2K | 322 | Óli | 45 |
| AL Albania | — | 50 | 1 in 61K | 41 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 47 | 1 in 217K | 47 | Oli | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 41 | 1 in 143K | 41 | Oli | 34 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #116 | — | — | 115 | Óli | 3 |
1,084 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Óli 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 Faroese, a diminutive of the male given name Ólavur
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)
- Guðmundur Óli Þorlákssonb. 1928ISIcelandic musician
- Óli Jacobsenb. 1943DKFaroese politician and writer
- Óli Holmb. 1945FOassociation football player
- Óli Breckmannb. 1948FOFaroese teacher and politician (born 1948)
- Guðmundur Óli Gunnarssonb. 1961ISIcelandic conductor (music)
- Óli Björn Zimsenb. 1966ISbadminton player
- Óli Johannesenb. 1972FOFaroese footballer
- Óli Mortensenb. 1996FOFaroese swimmer
- Óli Mittúnb. 2005FOFaroese handball player
- Tómas Kristjánssonb. 2008ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic footballer (born 2008)
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 322 | #115 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 293 | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 115 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 25 | #3,770 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #25,241 |
| FO Faroe Islands | Fólkanavnalistin — official advisory list of given names (Navnanevndin) | — | — | — |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Óli?
- A machine transcription gives /ouːlɪ/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Óli a male or female name?
- Óli is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Óli have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Óli, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Óli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Óli is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Óli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,084 people named Óli in 2022, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
- How common is Óli compared with other names?
- In Faroe Islands, Óli is the 116th most common given name of 194 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Óli?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B3liThe 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, “Óli” — the 116th most common given name in Faroe Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.