Ois
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of ouïr:
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ois is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 14th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 386K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 8.4M
- UYUruguay1 in 28K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Õis in EE Estonia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of ouïr:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ois 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.
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: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Ois 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 Finnish, inflection of olla:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bar, everything, all
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 119 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 61 | #38,934 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 61 | #38,666 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ois mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of ouïr: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ois?
- In the etymology graph, Uis is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ois?
- A machine transcription gives /wa/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Ois have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 176 people named Ois in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ois.
- Where is Ois most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ois is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ois?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 119 people named Ois, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Ois compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Ois is the 14th most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ois?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oisThe 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, “Ois” — the 14th most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.