Ogun
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oɡʊn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ogun is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Yoruba Ògún.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 93K(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 414K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 93K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ogün in DE Germany, TR Türkiye, AT Austria and 1 more and Oguen in NG Nigeria.
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)
Borrowed from Yoruba Ògún.
Sources 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- YorùbáName Dictionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ogun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Oguen | 62 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 711K | — | Ogün | 18 |
| DE Germany | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Ogün | 39 |
| US United States | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 7.8M | 197 | Ogun | 153 |
| NL Netherlands | 35 | 1 in 494K | 35 | Ogün | 7 |
| BE Belgium | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 414K | 6 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 518K | 4 | Ogün | 10 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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 2020; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Ogun 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 Yoruba, Ogun (orisha of war, iron, metallurgy, and technology), patron of warriors, hunters, blacksmiths, and ironworkers.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A male given name from Yoruba.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gabriel Ogunb. 1946NGNigerian boxer
- Nicole Ogunb. 2007FIFinnish basketball player (born 2007)
- Maupe OgunNGNigerian journalist
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 179 | #100,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112 | #137,816 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 34 | #14,637 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #90,747 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Ogun mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Yoruba Ògún. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Ogun?
- A machine transcription gives /oɡʊn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ogun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Ogun in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oguen.
- How common is the name Ogun?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 35 people named Ogun, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ogun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ogunThe 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, “Ogun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.