Given name & surname
Olah
Olah is a surname from Hungarian. It is used in Romanian.
Original HungarianOláh
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1898. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Olah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 0 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 1898
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1923. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,672 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Olah’s family of names
Olah has a related form in Ola. In Romanian usage, Olah as a surname was borrowed from the Hungarian form Oláh.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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