Olde
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
Olde is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Olde counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | — | — | Olde | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 191 | — | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 99 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 68 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 36 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Emanuel Oldeb. 1802SESwedish linguist
- Hans Oldeb. 1855DEGerman painter (1855-1917)
- Neil Leverne Oldeb. 1904CACanadian politician
- Peter M. Oldeb. 1957AUAustralian botanist
- Hendrik Oldeb. 1966EEEstonian chess player, coach and referee (born 1966)
- Christian Olde Wolbersb. 1972BEBelgian musician
- Margareth Oldeb. 2000EEEstonian chess player (born 2000)
- Grete Oldeb. 2002EEEstonian chess player (born 2002)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 191 | #10,899 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 99 | #33,329 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #21,317 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 36 | #30,199 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Olde have the most bearers?
- Olde is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled olde.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oldeThe 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, “Olde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.