Oea
loc · Latin script
Oea is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Papua New Guinea than in any other country.
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 37Kas Oa(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 114Kas Oa
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.6Mas Oa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Oea itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Papua New Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈290 named Oa, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est., as Oa
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oa in US United States, AT Austria and O'A in PE Peru.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Oea is found
(measured from records)Oea 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 1 | — | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | listed | — | 20 |
| US United States | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Oa | 65 |
| NO Norway | 48as Oa | 1 in 114K | 48 | — | 2 |
| PE Peru | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 747K | — | O'A | 8 |
| AT Austria | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Oa | 8 |
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); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)Oea 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.
In Spanish, initialism of Organización de los Estados Americanos (“OAS”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, initialism of Organização dos Estados Americanos (“OAS”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, initialism of Organisation des États américains (“OAS”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a maritime town in Africa, now Tripoli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Oea?
- Mondonomo estimates about 288 people named Oa in Papua New Guinea, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Nigeria, United States, Norway and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Oea?
- In Norway, the national register counted 48 people named Oa, about 1 in 114 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Oea?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oeaThe 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, “Oea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.