Ongari
surname · Latin script
Meaning: masculine plural of ongaro
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oŋɡɑɾi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ongari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 177K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 445K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 177K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
masculine plural of ongaro
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ongari 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 177K | listed | Ongari | 17 |
| KE Kenya | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 445K | — | Ongari | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 31 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 77M | — | Ongari | 11 |
| IN India | — | — | 5 | — | — |
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: the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ongari 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 Italian, forma plural de Ongaro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Ongaro
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Dante Ongarib. 1906ITItalian historian, engineer and mountaineer (1906-1998)
- Renato Ongarib. 1935ITItalian canoeist (1935–2016)
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 31 | #145,687 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ongari mean, and where does it come from?
- masculine plural of ongaro Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ongari?
- A machine transcription gives /oŋɡɑɾi/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Ongari have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 352 people named Ongari in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ongari.
- How common is the name Ongari?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 31 people named Ongari, about 1 in 6.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ongariThe 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, “Ongari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.