Oş
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Osh (the capital of the Osh Region, and second largest city of Kyrgyzstan)
Oş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 216K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 6.4K
- BRBrazil1 in 339K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
860 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ös in TR Türkiye.
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)Osh (the capital of the Osh Region, and second largest city of Kyrgyzstan)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oş 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 860 | 1 in 6.4K | 860 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 624 | 1 in 339K | 624 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Ös | 21 |
| US United States | 104 | 1 in 3.2M | 104 | — | 31 |
| PL Poland | 75 | 1 in 510K | 42 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 34 | 1 in 508K | 34 | — | 10 |
860 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Oş is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In otk, an exclamation used to call or drive animals; the heart, centre of a tree-trunk, branch or horn; the tail bone of a horse or bird
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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
- What does the name Oş mean, and where does it come from?
- Osh (the capital of the Osh Region, and second largest city of Kyrgyzstan) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Oş have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 860 people named Oş, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Oş most common?
- Oş is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Oş?
- In Norway, the national register counted 860 people named Oş, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/o%C5%9FThe 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, “Oş”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.