# Olander (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/olander/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Swedish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Swedish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,462 |
| US rank (2010) | 12,576 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 125,404 people |
| Change since 2000 | +9.9% (2,240 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish Ölander, a habitational surname for someone from the island of Öland.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Olander in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Olander in the United States.

## People named Olander

- Mamie Van Doren, American actress

## Similar surnames

Olmedo, Olmeda.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.