Oda
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: Rōmaji transcription of おだ
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/owdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 188K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 174K
- NONorway1 in 210K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- 1 in 174K (inferred from the name graph)
1,765 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
European: 'rich'; also a town name in southern Ghana
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Oda is read(measured from records)
Oda is one spelling over 4 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.
- Japanese28%
Rōmaji transcription of おだ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Oda in Hindi.
- English22%
A room within a harem.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Oda in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Oda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,765 | 1 in 188K | 1.8K | Oda | 232 |
| ES Spain | 59 | 1 in 848K | 59 | — | 8 |
| IN India | 33 | 1 in 40M | 33 | Oda | 9 |
| FI Finland | 32 | 1 in 174K | 50 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 27 | 1 in 434K | 27 | Oda | 8 |
| NO Norway | 26 | 1 in 210K | 22K | — | 44 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | — | 4 |
1,765 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Oda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
European: 'rich'; also a town name in southern Ghana
as a nameAfrican Names
In Swedish, Se Ottilia.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, alter deutscher weibl. Vom., verselbst ständigte Kurzform von Zusammensetzun gen mit »Ot-« (ahd. öt »Besitz, Reichtum«) als erstem Bestandteil (z.B.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Riqueza
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Oda Nobuhideb. 1511JPa warlord and magistrate of lower Owari Province during the Sengoku period of Japan
- Oda Nobunagab. 1534JPJapanese samurai and warlord (1534–1582)
- Oda Nagamasub. 1548JPJapanese daimyo who lived from the late Sengoku period through the early Edo period
- Oda Nobutadab. 1557JPeldest son of Oda Nobunaga; samurai who fought in many battles during the Sengoku period
- Mikio Odab. 1905JPJapanese triple jumper, long jumper (track and field), coach, journalist (1905-1998)
- Kazumasa Odab. 1947JPJapanese singer-songwriter
- Yūji Odab. 1967JPJapanese actor and singer
- Eiichirō Odab. 1975JPJapanese manga artist
- Sophie Tamiko Odab. 1991USAmerican actress
- Sakura Odab. 1999JPJapanese pop singer (born 1999)
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 72 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,141 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 59 | #39,835 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 59 | #39,527 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 33 | #58,042 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #33,235 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 27 | #39,339 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #37,525 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Oda come from?
- European: 'rich'; also a town name in southern Ghana Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Oda?
- A machine transcription gives /owdə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- What does the name Oda mean?
- In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of おだ
- In which country does Oda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Oda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oda.
- Where is Oda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oda is densest in Finland — about 1 in 174 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,765 people named Oda in 2010, about 1 in 188 thousand residents.
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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, “Oda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.