Okina
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/okinɑ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Okina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 8.5M
- JPJapan≈1 in 220K
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 225K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Okina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Okina | 26 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 384K | — | Okina | 4 |
| ES Spain | 37 | 1 in 1.4M | 37 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 25 | 1 in 8.5M | 25 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Okina | 18 |
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 — 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)Okina 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 English, The Hawaiian apostrophe-like letter (ʻ ) used to indicate the glottal stop consonant.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, essive plural of oka
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)- Taeko Okinab. 1947JPJapanese screenwriter
- Yuri Okinab. 1960JPJapanese economist (1960-)
- Iraia Okinab. 1980ESSpanish illustrator
- Olga OkinaRUresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1947-4551
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 37 | #54,924 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 37 | #54,555 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25 | #168,311 |
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
- How do you pronounce Okina?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /okinɑ/; in English /oʊˈkinə/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ɔkinɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Okina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 558 people named Okina in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled okina.
- How common is the name Okina?
- In Spain, the national register counted 37 people named Okina, about 1 in 1.4 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/okinaThe 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, “Okina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.