Ola

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Ola

1. A female given name used in the U.S. in the end of the nineteenth century.

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”).

Ola (plural Olas)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ola is the 37076^th 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.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ola”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

• AOL, LOA, Lao, Loa, OAL, loa

Medieval Norwegian vernacular form of Olav (as compared to the originally Danish Ole).

Ola

1. a male given name

• The most common given name of men in Norway in the 17th and 18th century.

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• 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.

Back-formation from Aleksandra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: O‧la

Ola f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Aleksandra

• Ola in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Ola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Ola c (genitive Olas)

1. a male given name derived from Olaf