Ohai
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Deliberate misspelling of oh hi
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oʊhaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ohai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 101K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
- USUnited States≈1 in 4M
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Deliberate misspelling of oh hi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ohai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Ohai | 21 |
| US United States | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Ohai | 81 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | 7 | Ohai | 26 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Ohai | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Ohai | 5 |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kealia Wattb. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
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 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 7 | #182,958 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #280,388 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #279,572 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ohai mean, and where does it come from?
- Deliberate misspelling of oh hi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ohai?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊhaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ohai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Ohai in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ohai.
- How common is the name Ohai?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6 people named Ohai in 2026, about 1 in 6.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ohaiThe 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, “Ohai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.