Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Oleh 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 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Oleh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 54
- 54 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 10 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 boys is 5 in 1980. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,025 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Oleh’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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 Oleh
- Oleg BlokhinUkrainian footballer, coach, and politicianborn 1952
- Oleh ProtasovUkrainian association football playerborn 1964
- Oleh SentsovUkrainian filmmaker and activist (born 1976)
- Oleh HusievUkrainian footballerborn 1983
- Oleh LiashkoUkrainian politicianborn 1972
- Oleh TyahnybokUkrainian politicianborn 1968
- Vladimir KozlovUkrainian-American professional wrestler and actorborn 1979
- Oleh LuzhnyiUkrainian association football manager and former playerborn 1968
- Oleh KuznetsovUkrainian footballerborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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