Oviedo
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: This surname was brought to North America by Major Thomas Owsley in about 1677; he was bom in Stogursey in Somerset. Spain, found in early records in the L form Ovetum. It is of unknown origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/objedo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oviedo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 479(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 512
- ARArgentina1 in 762
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 479 (inferred from the name graph)
59,681 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
This surname was brought to North America by Major Thomas Owsley in about 1677; he was bom in Stogursey in Somerset. Spain, found in early records in the L form Ovetum. It is of unknown origin. Ovary Hungarian: topographic name for someone who lived by an old castle, composed of the elements 6 old +
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Oviedo is read(measured from records)
Oviedo 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.
- Spanish18%
This surname was brought to North America by Major Thomas Owsley in about 1677; he was bom in Stogursey in Somerset. Spain, found in early records in the L form Ovetum. It is of unknown origin. Ovary Hungarian: topographic name for someone who lived by an old castle, composed of the elements 6 old +
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Spain, found in early records in the L form Ovetum. It is of unknown origin.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Oviedo (the capital city of Asturias, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
lang., people, Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ovimbundu [Mbundu]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
prov, Spain
as a namePronouncing 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oviedo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 59,681 | 1 in 762 | 60K | Oviedo | 115 |
| CO Colombia | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 20 | Oviedo | 135 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Oviedo | 54 |
| CN China | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Oviedo | 3 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 479 | — | Oviedo | 49 |
| CR Costa Rica | 9,956 | 1 in 512 | 10K | — | 73 |
| UY Uruguay | 3,601 | 1 in 941 | 3.6K | — | 39 |
59,681 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Víctor Ugarteb. 1926BOnot in their usual nameBolivian footballer (1926–1995)
- Carlos Oviedo Cavadab. 1927CLCatholic cardinal (1927–1998)
- Antonio Oviedob. 1938ESSpanish association football player (1938–2022)
- Miguel Oviedob. 1950ARArgentine footballer
- David Patiñob. 1967MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Allan Oviedob. 1970CRCosta Rican footballer
- Rómulo Sánchezb. 1984VEnot in their usual namebaseball player
- Bryan Oviedob. 1990CRCosta Rican association football player
- Óscar Muñoz Oviedob. 1992COColombian taekwondo practitioner
- Johan Oviedob. 1998CUCuban baseball player
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 35 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 60K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10K | #163 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.6K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 20 | #96 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Oviedo mean, and where does it come from?
- This surname was brought to North America by Major Thomas Owsley in about 1677; he was bom in Stogursey in Somerset. Spain, found in early records in the L form Ovetum. It is of unknown origin. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Oviedo?
- A machine transcription gives /objedo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Oviedo have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 60 thousand people named Oviedo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oviedo.
- How common is the name Oviedo?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 59,681 people named Oviedo, about 1 in 762 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oviedoThe 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, “Oviedo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.