The Ols surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 221 people carried this name — #84,748 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,428,600 people counted. That is down 2% from 225 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 61 people named Ols.
Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Cantal.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
31 people named Ols is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Ols in American newspapers,
1906–1909.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 218,480 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ols.
- Ollier 206 · U.S. census
- Ollivier 234 · U.S. census
- Ollmann 205 · U.S. census
- Olmedo 5,768 · U.S. census
- Olmo 1,879 · U.S. census
- Olmos 9,895 · U.S. census
- Olsen 59,356 · U.S. census
- Olszak 242 · U.S. census
- Olszewski 5,554 · U.S. census
- Oltz 237 · U.S. census
- Omar 7,660 · U.S. census
- Omari 595 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Ols is.
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