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Olek

Boys' name

Diminutive of Aleksander

Olek has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 2016. 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 2023, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Olek, 2023

1 in 368,000

Olek 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Olek: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Aleksander

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Olek means

Olek is a diminutive of Aleksander.

Origin, language, and formation

Olek is used in Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aleksander.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Olek is pronounced /ˈɔ.lɛk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 24 boys were recorded with the name Olek between 2016 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,734 in 2023.

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 Olek?

Olek had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Olek 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 2023 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 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Olek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Oleks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Olek was born before 2021 — so the typical Olek is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
58.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
24
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Olek 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (9)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,734
2023

Spellings of Olek

Olek is not the most common spelling — Alex is, with 19.4% against Olek'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.

Olek around the world

Where Olek 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.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Olek 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
#8,734
2023
Peak year
2023
9 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Olek

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

OleeOlehOleanOlesOlegMilekValekElekOleksiyOleyOleanderMelekCalekTylekMylekKalekMahlekOleksandrOlesterAmulekOleOlenOlegarioMenelek

Sibling names for Olek

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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