Oleg
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Oleg (), Oleh (), or Aleh () is an East Slavic given name. The name is very common in Russia, Ukraine, and Belаrus.
Key facts
- Name.name
- Олег
- Name.image
- Oleg of Novgorod.jpg
- Name.caption
- Oleg of Novgorod by Viktor Vasnetsov
- Name.romanisation
- Oleg
- Name.gender
- Male
- Name.language
- Eastern Europe
- Name.meaning
- 'holy'
- Name.related names
- Olga, Helge
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- male given name
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- language of work or name
- Uzbek
- IPA transcription
- ˈɔlɛk
- native label
- Oleg
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- O420
- Cologne phonetics
- 054
- Caverphone
- ALK111
- transliteration or transcription
- Олег
- Commons category
- Oleg (given name)
- given name version for other gender
- Olga
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oleg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.