# Oleh (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/oleh/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 54 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 54 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 6 | 3,587 |
| 1951 | 5 | 4,101 |
| 1953 | 8 | 3,077 |
| 1954 | 7 | 3,376 |
| 1955 | 7 | 3,414 |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,861 |
| 1958 | 10 | 2,763 |
| 1980 | 5 | 6,992 |

## People named Oleh

- Oleh Hornykiewicz, Austrian biochemist (1926-2020)
- Oleh Bazylevych, footballer (1938-2018)
- Oleh Makhnitskyi, General Prosecutor of Ukraine
- Oleh Barannik, footballer
- Oleh Naduda, footballer
- Oleg Yashchuk, Belgian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.