Ogu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: , D-trasco, din Muscel 1820 (Mus) ; Ogescu, N
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oɡʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ogu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- PLPoland1 in 3.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
232 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
, D-trasco, din Muscel 1820 (Mus) ; Ogescu, N.
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ogu 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 | — | 232 | 1 in 1.4M | 302 | Ogu | 131 |
| IN India | — | 17 | 1 in 78M | 17 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 13 | 1 in 3.8M | 13 | Ogu | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 11 | 1 in 3.5M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| MT Malta | #665 | — | — | — | Ogu | 1 |
232 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Ogu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In aia, Palolo sea worm; the month of October in which it appears
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
ISO 639-3 language code for Ogbronuagum.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Emmanuel Ogub. 1964NGNigerian taekwondoin
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 302 | #69,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 232 | #81,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 115 | #134,929 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 31 | #48,392 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 17 | #87,409 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13 | #105,312 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #168,513 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #232,442 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #33,051 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ogu?
- A machine transcription gives /oɡʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ogu mean?
- Recorded meaning: , D-trasco, din Muscel 1820 (Mus) ; Ogescu, N.
- In which country does Ogu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 232 people named Ogu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ogu.
- Where is Ogu most common?
- Ogu is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ogu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 232 people named Ogu in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Ogu compared with other names?
- In Malta, Ogu is the 665th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oguThe 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, “Ogu” — the 665th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.