Olof

Where Olof comes from

Olof hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1883
    First appearance
    #799 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1891
    Peak, #766
    7 babies named Olof — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1927
    Olof Palme born
    Swedish Prime Minister
  5. 1977
    Olof Mellberg born
    Swedish football manager
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Olof Palme · Swedish Prime Minister, 1927–1986
  • Olof Mellberg · Swedish football manager, born 1977
  • Olof Swartz · Swedish botanist & taxonomist, 1760–1818
  • Olof von Dalin · Swedish nobleman, poet, historian and courtier, 1708–1763
  • Olof Thunberg · Swedish actor, 1925–2020

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.