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Oleh

Boys' name

Transliteration of Оле́г

Oleh has been given to 54 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Oleh, 1980

1 in 689,000

Oleh over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oleh: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Оле́г

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Oleh means

Oleh is a transliteration of Оле́г.

Origin, language, and formation

Oleh is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Оле́г.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 54 boys were recorded with the name Oleh between 1950 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1958; its best national rank was #2,762 in 1958.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Oleh?

Oleh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 689,000
5 of 3,444,198 births
Among boys only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,468 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oleh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oleh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Olehs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oleh was born before 1955 — so the typical Oleh is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
90.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
54
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 90.7% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Oleh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (10)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,762
1958

Spellings of Oleh

Oleh is not the most common spelling — Alex is, with 19.4% against Oleh's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Oleh is used

Across 1910–2025, Oleh was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Oleh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Oleh around the world

Where Oleh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1950–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Oleh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,762
1958
Peak year
1958
10 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
54
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oleh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

OleeOlekOlegOleanOleyOleanderOlesDlehOleksandrOleOleksiyOlenOlegarioSalehOlesterMusleh

Sibling names for Oleh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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