Surname OLAS

People with the surname OLAS in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 405 men and 398 women. Most registered in: ŁÓDZKIE.

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male

405people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 52,340

Most registered in: ŁÓDZKIE (41.0%, 20 January 2026)

female

398people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 54,172

Most registered in: ŁÓDZKIE (43.6%, 20 January 2026)

Each 1-in-X is computed within its own dataset. The datasets are different sizes, so these two figures are not compared with each other.

How many people have this surname?

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How many people have this surname?

The PESEL register publishes two separate surname lists, male and female. We show each figure on its own and never add them up.

male

405 people were registered with the surname OLAS (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

398 people were registered with the surname OLAS (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.

How rare is this surname?

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How rare is this surname?

“1 in X” means that roughly one in every X people on this list has this surname. The bigger X, the rarer the name. The rank counts from the most common surname on the list.

male

about 1 in 52,340

#8,012 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 52,340 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname OLAS on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

OLAS (male) ranked 8,012 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #7,989WOJTASIEWICZ406
  2. #7,989ZDZIEBŁOWSKI406
  3. #8,012OLAS this surname405
  4. #8,040ANTOŃCZAK404
  5. #8,040BUDKOWSKI404

female

about 1 in 54,172

#8,327 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 54,172 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname OLAS on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

OLAS (female) ranked 8,327 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #8,302ROGALEWSKA399
  2. #8,302ŻUBROWSKA399
  3. #8,327OLAS this surname398
  4. #8,353KONIECKO397
  5. #8,353SIUDEK397

Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.

Where is it most often registered?

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Where is it most often registered?

The map and the list show the voivodeships where people with this surname have a registered permanent address. The brighter the colour and the longer the bar, the bigger the share.

male

Among the 363 people with the surname OLAS (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 41.0% were registered in ŁÓDZKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 3.0% (11)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBELSKIE: 0.8% (3)LUBUSKIE: 2.8% (10)ŁÓDZKIE: 41.0% (149)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 4.4% (16)MAZOWIECKIE: 4.4% (16)OPOLSKIE: 1.7% (6)PODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: 2.5% (9)ŚLĄSKIE: 16.0% (58)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 2.2% (8)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 0.6% (2)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 8.3% (30)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 12.4% (45)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
ŁÓDZKIE41.0%149
ŚLĄSKIE16.0%58
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE12.4%45
WIELKOPOLSKIE8.3%30
MAŁOPOLSKIE4.4%16
MAZOWIECKIE4.4%16
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE3.0%11
LUBUSKIE2.8%10
POMORSKIE2.5%9
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE2.2%8
OPOLSKIE1.7%6
LUBELSKIE0.8%3
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE0.6%2

female

Among the 360 people with the surname OLAS (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 43.6% were registered in ŁÓDZKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 2.2% (8)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: 1.9% (7)ŁÓDZKIE: 43.6% (157)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 3.3% (12)MAZOWIECKIE: 4.4% (16)OPOLSKIE: 2.5% (9)PODKARPACKIE: 0.6% (2)PODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: 4.4% (16)ŚLĄSKIE: 16.4% (59)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: 8.6% (31)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 11.9% (43)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
ŁÓDZKIE43.6%157
ŚLĄSKIE16.4%59
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE11.9%43
WIELKOPOLSKIE8.6%31
MAZOWIECKIE4.4%16
POMORSKIE4.4%16
MAŁOPOLSKIE3.3%12
OPOLSKIE2.5%9
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE2.2%8
LUBUSKIE1.9%7
PODKARPACKIE0.6%2

How did this count change between editions of the list?

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How did this count change between editions of the list?

The PESEL register publishes its lists every year. We show the number of people with this surname on each edition, beside how the whole list changed. We say what changed, not why.

male

The number of people with the surname OLAS (male) in the PESEL register changed from 425 on 30 June 2019 to 405 on 20 January 2026: −4.7%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 46,729425
22 January 20201 in 47,786416
1 February 20211 in 48,513412
27 January 20221 in 49,397409
30 January 20231 in 51,000408
19 January 20241 in 51,540407
22 January 20251 in 51,961406
20 January 20261 in 52,340405

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

female

The number of people with the surname OLAS (female) in the PESEL register changed from 414 on 30 June 2019 to 398 on 20 January 2026: −3.9%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 48,911414
22 January 20201 in 49,560408
2 February 20211 in 49,422410
27 January 2022The publisher's file dated 27 January 2022 repeats the data of the previous edition, so it is not shown as an edition of its own.
30 January 20231 in 52,634406
19 January 20241 in 53,698400
22 January 20251 in 54,520395
20 January 20261 in 54,172398

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

What does this surname mean?

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What does this surname mean?

We give a meaning only when a scholarly work supports it. We don't guess.

We have no sourced meaning for this surname. We could not find it in any scholarly work we are able to cite here, and we do not guess at meanings.

Where does it appear in old print?

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Where does it appear in old print?

Polona, the National Library's digital library, searches its catalogue and the text of its scanned pages. We show how many results it returns for this word, and from which years.

The word OLAS appears on 1,975 pages of works not under copyright and in 440 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 5 October 2026).

VerifiedDigital libraryPoland · Biblioteka Narodowa · 5 October 2026

These are search results for the word in any inflected form. Some may be another meaning of the same spelling, and they are not a count of people or of mentions of anyone's family.

Pages by date of publication
  1. before 180080
  2. 1800–1849164
  3. 1850–1899326
  4. 1900–1918329
  5. 1919–1939751
  6. 1940 on318

Catalogue records by kind

  • Periodicals384
  • Sheet music8
  • Articles3
  • Ephemera2
  • Books2

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa423
  • Działdowo276
  • Kraków213
  • Lwów145
  • Poznań130
  • Paris65

Example pages in the public domain

„En la concavidad panzuda dis- tinguianse grandes piedras, conio restos de carga maltratados por las olas”

Marianela1893 · p. 23 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„no le queda , de cansado, mas que algun resto de turbacion é inquietud : bramaba sordamente, y sus olas”

Las aventuras de Telémaco1843 · p. 99 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„61 2tu^olas, bie fôicbe. Iwinas, ber (<Sd)Ctctf^) SSocf. 25ïtina&, ber SBienentveifel.”

Beiträge zur Kunde der littauischen Sprache : eine ergänzende Beilage zum Ruhig-Mielckeschen Wörterbuch. H. 2, Laut und Tonlehre der littauischen Sprache1849 · p. 64 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

Who well known has this surname?

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Who well known has this surname?

We have not looked this surname up in Wikidata yet.

How do we know?

Sources on this page

  • Official data Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL · 20 January 2026 · CC0 1.0 · Dane pochodzą z rejestru PESEL, Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0) · dane.gov.pl
  • Digital library Biblioteka Narodowa — Polona · Polona, Biblioteka Narodowa · polona.pl
How to read these figures
  • Wykaz nazwisk męskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Surnames occurring once are not published; absence from the dataset is not zero.
  • The publisher does not state whether the split is by a person's sex or by the grammatical gender of the surname form. The datasets are therefore neither summed nor compared numerically.
  • The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
  • Wykaz nazwisk żeńskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Denominator: 21,197,537 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • The 1-in-X figure is rounded; the count of people is exact.
  • Denominator: 21,560,302 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • A permanent registered residence is an address in the register — not an actual address, and not information about a family's roots.
  • Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
  • The size of the list itself changes between editions, so beside the count we show the share of that edition's list (“1 in X”).
  • Polona's figures are search results for the word in any inflected form, in the catalogue and in the text of pages of works not under copyright; not every result is the surname.

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