Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Olegario isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Olegario through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 414
- 414 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,637 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,637 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,585 as a first name in 2020; 369 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.
Olegario’s family of names
Olegario may belong to the same name family as Ollegario. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Olegario
- Olegario Víctor AndradeArgentine journalist, poet, politician (1839–1882)
- Olegario Vázquez RañaMexican sport shooter1935–2025
- Olegario González de CardedalSpanish theologianborn 1934
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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