Ohayon

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ohayon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 43K
  • USUnited States1 in 655K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ohayon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Israel (measured from records)

15,091 named אוחיון, 2017

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
214 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Morocco, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

OhayonLatin(measured from records)
אוחיוןHebrew(measured from records)

Locally spelled אוחיון in IL Israel, MA Morocco, QA Qatar and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Catalan

Safi, Marrakech, Mogador-Essaouira, Demnat, Agadir, Meknès, Fès, Rabat, Mazagan, Tetuán, Casablanca, Algiers, Oran, Nédroma, Tlemcen, Souk Abras, Tunis, Israel, Paris, Cabo Verde, São Paulo, Beiern, Brasil, Buenos Aires; life's son

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ohayon 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 Ohayon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IL Israel#1515,091as אוחיון1 in 57515Kאוחיון99
MA Morocco#17≈14,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—אוחיון9
QA Qatar#27≈7,400 est.≈1 in 332—אוחיון1
FR France—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 43K251Ohayon214
IQ Iraq—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 28K—אוחיון1
TN Tunisia#641≈800 est.≈1 in 15K—Ohayon2
US United States—5081 in 655K617Ohayon185
CY Cyprus#663≈60 est.≈1 in 21K—Ohayon5

15,091 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Ohayon is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, Spain, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written O'Hayon

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Oḥayon

  • Thai surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Israel, United States

    Also written โอฮายอน

32 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)

19201940196019802000Henry Ohayon, b. 1934Shimon Ohayon, b. 1945Jonathan Ohayon, b. 1972Moti Ohayon, b. 1973Ayelet Ohayon, b. 1974Avi Ohayon, b. 1978Moshe Ohayon, b. 1983Matan Ohayon, b. 1986Yogev Ohayon, b. 1987Almog Ohayon, b. 1994

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Ohayon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020617#38,609
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010508#42,640
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000330#57,705
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991251—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981207—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961109—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195145—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19418—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19218—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19314—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

In which country does Ohayon have the most bearers?
In Israel, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named אוחיון, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Ohayon?
In the United States, the national register counted 508 people named Ohayon in 2010, about 1 in 655 thousand residents.
How common is Ohayon compared with other names?
In Israel, Ohayon is the 15th most common surname of 325,634 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, “Ohayon” — the 15th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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