Okéy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Okéy is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 9.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- CACanada≈1 in 390Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Okey in US United States, NG Nigeria, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Okéy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Okey | 65 |
| US United States | 571 | 1 in 583K | 735 | Okey | 196 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 453K | 150 | Okey | 70 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Okey | 7 |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Okey | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 393K | — | Okey | 24 |
| AT Austria | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Okey | 6 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Okéy a male or female name?
- Okéy is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Okéy?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Okéy in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled okey. After it come United States, United Kingdom, South Africa and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Okéy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 571 people named Okéy in 2020, about 1 in 583 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Okéy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ok%C3%A9yThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Okéy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.