Okie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A person from Oklahoma
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈoki/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Okie is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.4Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 400Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 399K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A person from Oklahoma.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Okie 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 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Okie | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 399K | — | Okie | 5 |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 170 | Okie | 122 |
| PH Philippines | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 844K | — | Okie | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Okie | 23 |
| CA Canada | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Okie | 10 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 542K | — | Okie | 4 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)Okie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, native or inhabitant of Oklahoma
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Elizabeth Okie Paxtonb. 1878USAmerican painter (1878–1972)
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 170 | #105,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 150 | #121,361 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 142 | #114,166 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Okie mean, and where does it come from?
- A person from Oklahoma. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Okie?
- In Indonesian /ˈoki/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Okie a male or female name?
- Okie is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Okie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 194 people named Okie in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled okie.
- How common is the name Okie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 154 people named Okie in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/okieThe 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, “Okie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.