Oglesby

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Perhaps person from Ugglebamby, Yorkshire, from 'Uglubarthr's settlement'

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɑɡəɫsbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Oglesby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 39K
  • CACanada≈1 in 48K

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)

12,271 people, 2010

Sources
407 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Ghana, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Perhaps person from Ugglebamby, Yorkshire, from 'Uglubarthr's settlement'.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Oglesby 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.

Where Oglesby is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—12,2711 in 27K12KOglesby407
GH Ghana#491≈4,500 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Oglesby4
GB United Kingdom—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 39K946Oglesby124
CA Canada—≈790 est.≈1 in 48K—Oglesby30
IT Italy—≈700 est.≈1 in 89K—Oglesby7
IE Ireland—≈270 est.≈1 in 19K—Oglesby39

12,271 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Oglesby is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written O'Glesby

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Оглесбі

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Richard James Oglesby, b. 1824Woodson Ratcliffe Oglesby, b. 1867John G. Oglesby, b. 1873Arthur Oglesby, b. 1923Carl Oglesby, b. 1935Rhonda Coullet, b. 1945Randy Oglesby, b. 1949Alfred Oglesby, b. 1967Evan Oglesby, b. 1981

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)

FormalDear Oglesby,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Oglesby
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201012K#2,919
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200012K#2,733
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202012K#2,985
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)2002946#6,922
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Oglesby mean, and where does it come from?
Perhaps person from Ugglebamby, Yorkshire, from 'Uglubarthr's settlement'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Oglesby?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɑɡəɫsbi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Oglesby have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Oglesby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oglesby.
How common is the name Oglesby?
In the United States, the national register counted 12,271 people named Oglesby in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
How common is Oglesby compared with other names?
In Ghana, Oglesby is the 491st most common surname of 36,883 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, “Oglesby” — the 491st most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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