Omo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/omo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Omo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 89K
- USUnited States1 in 805K
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
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 in the world(measured from records)
Omo 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 | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Omo | 57 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Omo | 7 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Omo | 17 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 1 | Omo | 17 |
| US United States | — | 413 | 1 in 805K | 438 | Omo | 133 |
| RE Réunion | #231 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Omo | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Omo | 14 |
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 2020; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Omo is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In umb, this; yes. O77iokoli, great great grandson
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In frp, alternative form of amar (“to love”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, ohm (derived unit of electrical resistance)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ff, third person singular;long form he/she
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bhp, hold something in the mouth
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of おも
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)
- Modupe Omo-Ebohb. 1922NGNigerian lawyer and jurist
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 438 | #51,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 413 | #50,564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 338 | #56,526 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Omo?
- A machine transcription gives /omo/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Omo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Omo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled omo.
- How common is the name Omo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 413 people named Omo in 2010, about 1 in 805 thousand residents.
- How common is Omo compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Omo is the 231st most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Omo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/omoThe 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, “Omo” — the 231st most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.