Oly
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The station code of Olympic in Hong Kong
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Venezuela (asosab): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries
/oli/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Oly is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela1 in 34K(measured from records)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 46K
- MXMexico≈1 in 110K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The station code of Olympic in Hong Kong.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oly 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Oly | 32 |
| VE Venezuela | 845 | 1 in 34K | 845 | Oly | 24 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 435K | — | Oly | 36 |
| IN India | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 22 | Oly | 5 |
| SN Senegal | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | — | — |
| GT Guatemala | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Oly | 9 |
| CL Chile | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 1 | Oly | 19 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)Oly 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 enm, alternative form of holy (sacred)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, such
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)- Spleenb. 1982FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer and musician
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #1,607 |
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
- What does the name Oly mean, and where does it come from?
- The station code of Olympic in Hong Kong. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Oly?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /oli/; in Portuguese /ɔli/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Oly a male or female name?
- Oly is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Venezuela (asosab): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Oly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Oly in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oly.
- Where is Oly most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oly is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oly?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 845 people named Oly, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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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, “Oly”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.