Ochôa
surname · Latin script
Ochôa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 60th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Ochoa, from Basque otsoa, otxoa (“wolf”).
- ECEcuador1 in 437(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 539
- HNHonduras≈1 in 550
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #595 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 428 (measured from records)
- 1 in 437 (inferred from the name graph)
78,677 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
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 Ochoa in US United States, VE Venezuela, CO Colombia and 4 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)
- SpanishOchoa(measured from records)
- Basqueotsoa“wolf”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Ochoa, from Basque otsoa, otxoa (“wolf”).
Sources 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ochôa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #774 | 78,677 | 1 in 4.2K | 79K | Ochoa | 428 |
| CN China | — | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Ochoa | 13 |
| CO Colombia | #124 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 895 | 35 | Ochoa | 184 |
| VE Venezuela | #97 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 539 | — | Ochoa | 94 |
| EC Ecuador | #60 | 38,708 | 1 in 437 | 39K | Ochoa | 90 |
| HN Honduras | #68 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 550 | — | Ochoa | 59 |
| SV El Salvador | #138 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 821 | — | Ochoa | 60 |
78,677 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ochôa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Ochoa, from Basque otsoa, otxoa (“wolf”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
- In which country does Ochôa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 79 thousand people named Ochôa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ochoa.
- Where is Ochôa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ochôa is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 437 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ochôa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 78,677 people named Ochôa in 2010, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ochôa compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ochôa is the 774th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Ochôa” — the 774th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.