Orán

loc · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Orán is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina.

  • BOBolivia
  • COColombia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
68 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Oran in ES Spain, MX Mexico, CO Colombia.

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 across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Orán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Orán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—51Orán24
BO Bolivia——Orán1
ES Spain—270Oran32
MX Mexico—7Oran36
CO Colombia——Oran15
US United States—1.8K—68
IN India—596—3
BR Brazil—143—36

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Orán is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Israel, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Hebrew, Dutch

    Also written Oran, אוראן, O'Ran, Óran, Órán

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Oran, Ôran, Ôràn, Ořãn, Órán

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Oràn, Óran, Oran

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Oran

  • French surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Algeria

    Also written Oran, Ôrân, Ôràn, Oràn, Orân

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Orán is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Oran (a city in Algeria)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, masculine singular passive participle of orat

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pag, rain; to rain

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Orán under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

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Orán is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled orán.

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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, “Orán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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