Oleh
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oleh is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script.
- RURussia1 in 34◐
- BYBelarus1 in 44
- UAUkraine1 in 52
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.0M ●
- #22 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 602 ●
- 1 in 136 ◐
across 11 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
22M records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alex in BR Brazil, US United States, PE Peru and 16 more, Алексей in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 3 more, Олексій in UA Ukraine and Aleksi in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #5 | 30,334,167 | 11M rec. | — | #5 | Алексей | 250 |
| UA Ukraine | #15 | 6,130,823 | 6M rec. | — | listed | Олексій | 144 |
| PE Peru | #56 | 467,948 | 229K rec. | — | 84K | Alex | 105 |
| US United States | #166 | 350,569 | 2.6M rec. | 1 in 949 | 351K | Alex | 602 |
| TR Türkiye | #323 | 310,552 | 6.4K rec. | — | — | Алексей | 66 |
| BR Brazil | #79 | 294,567△ | 145K rec. | 1 in 719 | 312K | Alex | 233 |
| GB United Kingdom | #126 | 281,434 | 215K rec. | — | 5 | Alex | 325 |
| AR Argentina | #423 | 202,924 | 99K rec. | — | 834 | Alex | 123 |
| AU Australia | #113 | 185,861 | 147K rec. | — | 199 | Alex | 331 |
| FR France | #322 | 150,370 | 188K rec. | 1 in 451 | 150K | Alex | 383 |
| PH Philippines | #116 | 149,699 | 121K rec. | — | — | Alex | 146 |
| MX Mexico | #294 | 144,656 | 131K rec. | — | 5 | Alex | 197 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian472K67%
- Polish139K20%
- Russian70K10%
- Spanish4.6K1%
- English3.8K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 471,826 | 67% |
| Polish | 139,354 | 20% |
| Russian | 70,165 | 10% |
| Spanish | 4,573 | 1% |
| English | 3,826 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Oleh 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 English, A Jew who has recently made aliyah to Israel; an immigrant to Israel.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, because
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 11 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 38 |
| 2024 | 41 |
| 2025 | 56 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 14 years between 2010–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Oleh Bazylevychb. 1938UAfootballer (1938-2018)
- Oleg Blokhinb. 1952UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer, coach, and politician
- Oleg Kuznetsovb. 1963UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer
- Oleh Protasovb. 1964UAUkrainian association football player
- Oleh Tiahnybokb. 1968UAUkrainian politician
- Oleh Luzhnyib. 1968UAUkrainian association football manager and former player
- Oleh Liashkob. 1972UAUkrainian politician
- Oleg Sentsovb. 1976UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian filmmaker and activist (born 1976)
- Vladimir Kozlovb. 1979UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian-American professional wrestler and actor
- Oleh Husievb. 1983UAUkrainian footballer
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●
Attested in 33 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 123 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oleh?
- We estimate roughly 1.0 million people bear Oleh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oleh have the most bearers?
- Oleh is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled алексей.
- How common is Oleh compared with other names?
- In Russia, Oleh is the 5th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Oleh a male or female name?
- Oleh is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Oleh” — the 5th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.