Obonyo
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Dominica, 2025
/oɓoɲo/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Obonyo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 68Kfew records
- DMDominica1 in 74K
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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Obonyo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #175 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 2 | Obonyo | 38 |
| UG Uganda | #898 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Obonyo | 25 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Obonyo | 14 |
| US United States | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | listed | Obonyo | 58 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Obonyo | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 632K | — | Obonyo | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | — | 1 | 1 in 74K | 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: Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Micah Obierob. 2001GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| KE Kenya | Mzalendo Trust "Elections Watch" — 2022 gazetted election winners | 2022 | 2 | #162 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Obonyo?
- In Swahili /oɓoɲo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Obonyo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Obonyo in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled obonyo.
- How common is the name Obonyo?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Obonyo in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Obonyo compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Obonyo is the 175th most common surname of 179,147 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/obonyoThe 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, “Obonyo” — the 175th most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.