Ocana
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/okana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ocana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: inces of Almerfa and Toledo.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 3.7K
- PEPeru≈1 in 8.2K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
13,582 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ocaña in PE Peru, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 2 more.
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)inces of Almerfa and Toledo. The placename is probably of pre-Roman origin, and may be akin to the North(-Eastern) Italian placenames Oc(c)a and Occagno, which have been claimed to be of Ligurian derivation. Ochila Rumanian: nickname for a one-eyed man or for someone with some other defect of the eyes, such as squint¬ ing. The name is a deriv. of the word ochi eye (L oc(u)lus), and is applied also to a one-eyed monster in Rumanian folk-tales. Cogn.: It.: Occhi. Dims.: Fr.: Oeuillet, Leuillet, Leuillot. It.: Ochiello, Occhillo, Occhini, Occhino, Ochiuzzi; Occhiuto, Occhiuti (Calabria). Aug.: It.: Occhioni. Ochoa Ograbek 394
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ocana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #419 | 13,582 | 1 in 3.7K | 14K | Ocaña | 108 |
| EC Ecuador | #616 | 5,528 | 1 in 3.1K | 5.5K | Ocaña | 29 |
| PE Peru | #820 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Ocaña | 44 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,344 | 1 in 19K | 2.3K | Ocaña | 36 |
| US United States | — | 2,064 | 1 in 161K | 2.1K | Ocana | 203 |
| BO Bolivia | #943 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ocaña | 22 |
13,582 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names. 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)- Juan Jarvisb. 1950CUnot in their usual nameCuban javelin thrower
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,468 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,282 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2001 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Ocana?
- A machine transcription gives /okana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Ocana mean?
- Recorded meaning: inces of Almerfa and Toledo.
- In which country does Ocana have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Ocana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ocaña.
- Where is Ocana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ocana is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.1 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ocana?
- In Spain, the national register counted 13,582 people named Ocana, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Ocana compared with other names?
- In Spain, Ocana is the 419th most common surname of 395,154 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/ocanaThe 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, “Ocana” — the 419th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.