Ognibene
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do lat. med. Omnebene/Omnibene; sobrenome patronímico (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/oɲibene/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated
Ognibene is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mali than in any other country, where it is the 44th most common surname.
- MLMali≈1 in 610few records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 419K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 540Kfew records
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.
- Mali (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 609 (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ognibene
- Italian:/oɲibene/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/uɡnibẽ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)do lat. med. Omnebene/Omnibene; sobrenome patronímico
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ognibene is found
(measured from records)Ognibene 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML Mali | #44 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 609 | — | Ognibene | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Ognibene | 17 |
| US United States | — | 530 | 1 in 628K | 542 | Ognibene | 174 |
| BR Brazil | — | 185 | 1 in 1.1M | 185 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 538K | 21 | Ognibene | 14 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Ognibene | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 28 | 1 in 419K | 28 | Ognibene | 5 |
| BB Barbados | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Ognibene | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tom Ognibeneb. 1943USAmerican politician and lawyer (1943-2015)
- Paolo Ognibeneb. 1963ITphilologist, slavist (1963-)
- Jenny O.b. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ognibene mean, and where does it come from?
- do lat. med. Omnebene/Omnibene; sobrenome patronímico Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Ognibene?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /oɲibene/; in Portuguese /uɡnibẽ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ognibene?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Ognibene in Mali, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ognibene. After it come Italy, United States, Brazil and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ognibene?
- In the United States, the national register counted 530 people named Ognibene in 2010, about 1 in 628 thousand residents.
- How common is Ognibene compared with other names?
- In Mali, Ognibene is the 44th most common surname of 7,873 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/ognibeneThe 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, “Ognibene” — the 44th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.