Ochoa

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

How Ochoa is read●(measured from records)

Ochoa is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish77%

  name, probably originally a byname from Basque otso wolf + the def. art. -a. 6 Cionaodha see Kenny O’Curran see Curran O’Currigan see Corr O’Cwigley see Quickley 4S8 O’Daa O’Dwyer O’Daa see Daw Odicini see Oade 6 Daimhin see Devane Odiin see Oade O’Daly see Daly O’Doane see Devane

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

• English14%

  Severe, Spanish-bom US biochemist

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Ochoa is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Canada, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written O'Choa, O-Choa, Öçhöä, Ochóa, Oçhoa

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Ochôa, Ôchoa, Ochōa

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Peru

  Also written Öchöǎ, Ochôa

• Korean surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Paraguay, Spain

  Also written 오초아, Ocoa

• Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, Peru, Philippines

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Öçhöä

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Ochoa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Filipino, a surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque], equivalent to Spanish Ochoa, mostly concentrated in Metro Manila and Laguna

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Croatian, španjolski molekularni biolog, u SAD-u od 1940; za otkriće enzima koji u bakteriji omogućuje sintezu ribonukleinske kiseline Nobelova nagrada 1959 (s A. Kornbergom)

  as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Severo Ochoab. 1905ESSpanish physician
• Eliades Ochoab. 1946CUCuban singer and composer
• Ellen Ochoab. 1958USAmerican engineer and former astronaut
• Blanca Fernández Ochoab. 1963ESSpanish alpine skier
• Andrés Baizb. 1975COnot in their usual nameColombian film director
• Bárbara Morib. 1978UYnot in their usual nameMexican actress and model
• Lorena Ochoab. 1981MXMexican professional golfer
• Guillermo Ochoab. 1985MXMexican association football player (born 1985)
• Christina Ochoab. 1985ESSpanish actor, scientist and writer
• Raymond Ochoab. 2001USAmerican actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ochoa mean, and where does it come from?

name, probably originally a byname from Basque otso wolf + the def. art. -a. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.

How do you pronounce Ochoa?

A machine transcription gives /otʃoa/ (IPA) for Spanish.

In which country does Ochoa have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 79 thousand people named Ochoa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ochoa.

Where is Ochoa most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ochoa is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 437 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Ochoa?

In the United States, the national register counted 78,677 people named Ochoa in 2010, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.

How common is Ochoa compared with other names?

In the United States, Ochoa is the 774th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.