Oleg

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Given name

title: "Oleg" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bulgarian-masculine-given-names", "slavic-masculine-given-names", "russian-masculine-given-names", "masculine-given-names", "ukrainian-masculine-given-names", "lists-of-people-by-given-name"] description: "Given name" topic_path: "geography/russia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Given name ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox name"]

FieldValue
nameОлег
imageOleg of Novgorod.jpg
captionOleg of Novgorod by Viktor Vasnetsov
romanisationOleg
pronunciation

| | gender | Male | | language | Eastern Europe | | origin | | | meaning | 'holy' | | related names | Olga, Helge | ::

::callout[type=note] the Slavic masculine given name ::

| name = Олег | image = Oleg of Novgorod.jpg | caption = Oleg of Novgorod by Viktor Vasnetsov | romanisation = Oleg | pronunciation =

| gender = Male | masculine = | feminine = | motto = | language = Eastern Europe | languageorigin = | origin = | derivation = | meaning = 'holy' | region = | alternative spelling = | nickname = | shortform = | petname = | variant forms = | related names = Olga, Helge | cognate = | anglicisation = | name day = | derived = | derivative = | seealso = | popularity = | footnotes =

Oleg (), Oleh (), or Aleh () is an East Slavic given name. The name is very common in Russia, Ukraine, and Belаrus.

Origins

Oleg derives from the Old Norse Helgi (Helge), meaning "holy", "sacred", or "blessed". The feminine counterpart is Olga.

People named Oleg

Rulers and nobles

Others

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References

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