Ovēr
given name · Latin script
Ovēr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 50 brand new first names listed, including Aeronwen, Ardal, Calista, Gaia, Macy, Nirvana, and Xena Cover illustration: Telegraph Colour Library/Mel Yates.
- DEGermany≈1 in 65K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 76K
- CLChile≈1 in 87K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Over in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany, Oever in NL Netherlands, Uver in NG Nigeria and Ŏvêr in DZ Algeria.
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)
50 brand new first names listed, including Aeronwen, Ardal, Calista, Gaia, Macy, Nirvana, and Xena Cover illustration: Telegraph Colour Library/Mel Yates.
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ovēr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Over | 90 |
| US United States | 1,044 | 1 in 319K | 1.1K | Over | 232 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 873 | Over | 105 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Ŏvêr | 5 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 658K | — | Uver | 14 |
| CL Chile | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 1 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 192 | 1 in 90K | 192 | Oever | 90 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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
- What does the name Ovēr mean, and where does it come from?
- 50 brand new first names listed, including Aeronwen, Ardal, Calista, Gaia, Macy, Nirvana, and Xena Cover illustration: Telegraph Colour Library/Mel Yates. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 4 other sources.
- Is Ovēr a male or female name?
- Ovēr is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ovēr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Ovēr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled over.
- How common is the name Ovēr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,044 people named Ovēr in 2010, about 1 in 319 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ov%C4%93rThe 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, “Ovēr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.