Ola
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ola"
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
[edit]Ola
- A female given name used in the U.S. in the end of the nineteenth century.
Etymology 2
[edit]Various origins:
- Borrowed from Yoruba Ọlá. Ọlá is an extremely common prefix for Yoruba names (and serves as a common form of shortened names), coming from ọlá (“honor”)
- Borrowed from Spanish Ola, a habitational surname from Basque ola (“forge”).
Proper noun
[edit]Ola (plural Olas)
- A surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Ola is the 37076th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 602 individuals. Ola is most common among Black/African American (33.55%), White (28.41%), Hispanic/Latino (18.94%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (17.77%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ola”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval Norwegian vernacular form of Olav (as compared to the originally Danish Ole).
Proper noun
[edit]Ola
- a male given name
Usage notes
[edit]- The most common given name of men in Norway in the 17th and 18th century.
References
[edit]- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 9 230 males with the given name Ola living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 19th century. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from Aleksandra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ola f
- a diminutive of the female given name Aleksandra
Declension
[edit]Declension of Ola
Further reading
[edit]- Ola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Ola c (genitive Olas)
- a male given name derived from Olaf or Olof
Usage notes
[edit]One of the rare male given names that ends in A.
See also
[edit]Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English terms borrowed from Yoruba
- English terms derived from Yoruba
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English terms derived from Basque
- English surnames
- English surnames from Yoruba
- English surnames from Basque
- English surnames from Spanish
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian male given names
- Polish back-formations
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔla
- Rhymes:Polish/ɔla/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- Polish given names
- Polish female given names
- Polish diminutives of female given names
- Swedish terms with audio pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish male given names