Ogbonna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Igbo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ədʒbənnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ogbonna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 60th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 496K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 32M
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K
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)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
670 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Igbo.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ogbonna 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 | — | 670 | 1 in 496K | 953 | Ogbonna | 221 |
| ES Spain | — | 66 | 1 in 758K | 66 | — | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 17 | 1 in 2.3M | 10 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 12 | 1 in 850K | 12 | — | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | #60 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 32M | listed | Ogbonna | 125 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
670 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Ogbonna 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.
Father's friend
as a nameThe book of African names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ogbonna Oparakub. 1956NGNigerian professor of electronic engineering
- Isaac Ogbonnab. 1962NGNigerian librarian
- IK Ogbonnab. 1984NGNigerian actor
- Angelo Ogbonnab. 1988ITItalian footballer
- Anayor Ogbonnab. 1992NGNigerian association football player
- Vanessa Ogbonnab. 1996IEIrish association football player
- Glory Ogbonnab. 1998NGNigerian football player (1998–)
- Akudo Ogbonnb. 2000NGnot in their usual nameNigerian female football player
- Kingsley OgbonnaNGNigerian actor
- Amechi OgbonnaNGNigerian journalist
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 953 | #26,900 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 670 | #33,941 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 373 | #52,289 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 66 | #36,985 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 66 | #36,589 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12 | #35,065 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #136,026 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #39,445 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #168,506 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Ogbonna mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Igbo. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ogbonna?
- A machine transcription gives /ədʒbənnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ogbonna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 670 people named Ogbonna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ogbonna.
- Where is Ogbonna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ogbonna is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ogbonna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 670 people named Ogbonna in 2010, about 1 in 496 thousand residents.
- How common is Ogbonna compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Ogbonna is the 60th most common surname of 346,007 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/ogbonnaThe 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, “Ogbonna” — the 60th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.