Olas
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/olas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 62K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 48K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 83K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
803 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)[정치], 라틴 아메리카 연대 기구, Organization for Latin America Solidarity
Cited for this meaning 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Olas 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.
803 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Olas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, The long groove on the bottom of a ski.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, (genitive plural of ol) your (plural)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, accusative plural of ōla
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kne, hour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( V-arr ap. A ). "Tertulia. Olas bat, arkalegaz egotaldi bat egin dogu Simonenean (V-arr)" A . v. solas.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Marcello Bonini Olasb. 1917ITItalian actor (1917–2007)
- Ludvik Olasb. 1930SISlovene geographer (1930-2002)
- Stanisław Olasb. 1937PLPolish politician and deputy
- Beata OlasPLPolish biochemist and researcher
- Edita OlasSIresearcher
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 730 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 405 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 405 | #8,028 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 398 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 398 | #8,344 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 123 | #139,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 123 | #127,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 100 | #160,975 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34 | #31,640 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 11 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 9 | #20,688 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Olas?
- A machine transcription gives /olas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Olas have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 803 people named Olas, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Olas most common?
- Olas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 48 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Olas?
- In Poland, the national register counted 803 people named Olas in 2026, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olasThe 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, “Olas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.