Olof

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Olof is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Swedish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The letter "O" in the Swedish spelling alphabet.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 93◐
  • FIFinland1 in 1.8K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 34K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈114K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
132 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 93 ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

The letter "O" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Olof is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#75109,206△10K rec.1 in 93109KOlof132
FI Finland#5293,039△66 rec.1 in 1.8K7.3KOlof23
IS Iceland—1,4500 rec.1 in 2421.4K—1
NO Norway—734488 rec.—192Olof28
DE Germany—603497 rec.—1Olof56
NL Netherlands—503△211 rec.1 in 34K503Olof32
GB United Kingdom—328246 rec.——Olof28
AU Australia—287272 rec.——Olof32
ES Spain—236149 rec.——Olof34
BJ Benin#43212217 rec.——Olof5
US United States—1513.8K rec.1 in 2.2M151Olof125
CA Canada—107112 rec.——Olof14

Roughly 109K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 93). 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●

  • Finnish26K42%
  • Swedish20K33%
  • English4K6%
  • Icelandic3.5K6%
  • German9472%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish26,22542%
Swedish20,49133%
English4,0206%
Icelandic3,4756%
German9472%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Olof is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2.8K records spelled Olof8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Brazil, France, United States

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Ólöf

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Olof3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Finland, Norway

    Also written Olöf, Ólöf

  • Polish given name292 records spelled Olof3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Sweden, Benin

    Also written Olóf, Ólöf

  • Hindi given name245 records spelled Olof4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Finland

    Also written Ólöf

  • Arabic given name162 records spelled Olof3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, United Arab Emirates, Türkiye

    Also written Ólöf

  • Russian given name161 records spelled Olof9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Finland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Олоф, Улоф, Ulof

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Olof is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Swedish form of OLAF . St Olof, King of Sweden (d. c. 950) was murdered by his rebellious heathen subjects for refusing to sacrifice to idols. Variants: Olov, Oluf .

    as a word

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●

05K10K15K20K2000200520102015202018K · 1999

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Olof in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199917,873
200017,335
200116,856
200216,405
200315,898
200415,411
200515,008
200614,546
200714,208
200813,881
200913,576
201013,256
201112,950
201212,629
201312,333
201412,106
201511,872
201611,681
201711,472
201811,283
201911,140
202010,923

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

120014001600180020002200Olaf II of Denmark, b. 1370Torbern Olof Bergman, b. 1735Carl Larsson, b. 1853Hannes Alfvén, b. 1908Thorbjörn Fälldin, b. 1926Olof Palme, b. 1927Daniel Westling, b. 1973Andreas Norlén, b. 1973Olof Mellberg, b. 1977Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne, b. 2016
  • Olaf II of Denmarkb. 1370NOnot in their usual nameKing of Denmark and Norway
  • Torbern Olof Bergmanb. 1735SESwedish chemist (1735-1784)
  • Carl Larssonb. 1853SEnot in their usual nameSwedish painter (1853-1919)
  • Hannes Alfvénb. 1908SEnot in their usual nameSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
  • Thorbjörn Fälldinb. 1926SEnot in their usual nameSwedish 20th century prime minister (1926-2016)
  • Olof Palmeb. 1927SESwedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86)
  • Daniel Westlingb. 1973SEnot in their usual namehusband of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
  • Andreas Norlénb. 1973SEnot in their usual nameSpeaker of the Riksdag
  • Olof Mellbergb. 1977SESwedish football manager (born 1977)
  • Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåneb. 2016SEnot in their usual nameson of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland

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 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Olof
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—109K#23
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199918K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200017K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200117K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200216K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200316K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200415K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200515K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200615K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200714K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200814K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200914K—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Olof?
We estimate roughly 114 thousand people bear Olof (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Olof have the most bearers?
We estimate about 109 thousand people bear Olof in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled olof.
Where is Olof most common?
Olof is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 93 people carrying it.
How common is Olof compared with other names?
In Sweden, Olof is the 75th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
Is Olof a male or female name?
Olof 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.
What does the name Olof mean?
Recorded meaning: The letter "O" in the Swedish spelling alphabet
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Olof” — the 75th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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