Oline
given name · Norwegian Bokmål · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oline is a given name, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. In Greenland it is the 99th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Norwegian Bokmål and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A feminine form of Ole; possible also shortened from Caroline.
- NONorway1 in 2.2K◐
- DKDenmark1 in 11K
- GLGreenland1 in 549
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.6K ●
- Sources
- 56 ●
- 1 in 2.2K ◐
across 6 countries
625 records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Meaning & origin●
A feminine form of Ole; possible also shortened from Caroline.
Sources 2
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #403 | 2,465△ | 414 rec. | 1 in 2.2K | 9.2K | Oline | 36 |
| DK Denmark | #934 | 558△ | 109 rec. | 1 in 11K | 558 | Oline | 56 |
| SE Sweden | — | 503△ | 32 rec. | 1 in 20K | 503 | Oline | 10 |
| GL Greenland | #99 | 106 | 1 rec. | — | 90 | Oline | 2 |
| US United States | — | 56 | 57 rec. | — | 137 | Oline | 18 |
| BR Brazil | — | 40 | — | 1 in 5.3M | 113 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 39 | 0 rec. | 1 in 143K | 130 | Oline | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 28△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 617K | 28 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | — | — | — | 8 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Roughly 2.5K people in Norway bear this name (about 1 in 2.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Norwegian Bokmål9.2K58%
- English2.1K13%
- Danish2K13%
- Norwegian5123%
- Finnish3362%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Bokmål | 9,184 | 58% |
| English | 2,130 | 13% |
| Danish | 2,037 | 13% |
| Norwegian | 512 | 3% |
| Finnish | 336 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1884 | 5 |
| 1886 | 10 |
| 1887 | 5 |
| 1891 | 7 |
| 1892 | 10 |
| 1894 | 5 |
| 1895 | 6 |
| 1896 | 9 |
| 1903 | 5 |
| 1904 | 8 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1907 | 7 |
| 1910 | 6 |
| 1912 | 12 |
| 1913 | 5 |
| 1914 | 15 |
| 1915 | 10 |
| 1916 | 18 |
| 1917 | 21 |
| 1918 | 17 |
| 1919 | 15 |
| 1920 | 15 |
| 1921 | 9 |
| 1922 | 12 |
| 1923 | 10 |
| 1924 | 10 |
| 1925 | 9 |
| 1926 | 12 |
| 1927 | 14 |
| 1928 | 6 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1930 | 11 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 6 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 7 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1943 | 8 |
| 1945 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1884–1945. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Madam Felleb. 1831NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian restaurateur
- Laura Oline Adolphine Sarauwb. 1853DKDanish painter
- Oline Elise Stenersen Kureb. 1881NONorwegian missionary
- Oline Gerd Sandnesb. 1922NONorwegian missionary (1922-1986)
- Oline Ragnhild Løvlidb. 1950NONorwegian musician
- Herborg Finnsetb. 1961NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian bishop
- Birgit Oline Kjerstadb. 1961NONorwegian politician
- Oline Stigb. 1966SESwedish writer
- Oline Koolen Bjerketvedtb. 1999NLDutch swimmer
- Jenny Oline Strømb. 2006NONorwegian 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 26 sources across 12 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 · 266 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oline?
- We estimate roughly 3.6 thousand people bear Oline (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oline have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.5 thousand people bear Oline in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled oline.
- How common is Oline compared with other names?
- In Norway, Oline is the 403rd most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.
- Is Oline a male or female name?
- Oline is a female 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.
- What does the name Oline mean?
- Recorded meaning: A feminine form of Ole; possible also shortened from Caroline.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Oline” — the 403rd most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.