Oneka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Born to die
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oneka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 5.5K
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 27K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Born to die.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oneka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Oneka | 1 |
| US United States | — | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 201 | Oneka | 126 |
| ES Spain | — | 177 | 1 in 283K | 177 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | #384 | 136 | 1 in 5.5K | 136 | Oneka | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | listed | Oneka | 4 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Oneka | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Oneka | 6 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register. 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)
Oneka is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Nyanja, Stative form of -ona: to be visible.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, son (great grand)
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In umb, great grandson
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
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)
- Onneca Velázquez de Pamplonab. 790ESnot in their usual name790 - bef.
- Onneca of Pamplonab. 800not in their usual name768 - uncertain 828
- Onneca Rebel of Sangüesab. 835ESnot in their usual name835-
- Onneca Garcés of Pamplonab. 838ESnot in their usual name845 -
- Onneca Fortúnezb. 848ESnot in their usual name9th century Basque princess from the Kingdom of Pamplona
- Onneca Sánchez of Pamplonab. 1000not in their usual nameQueen consort of León
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 201 | #38,064 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 177 | #9,928 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 169 | #4,633 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 136 | #458 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 8 | — |
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
- What does the name Oneka mean, and where does it come from?
- Born to die. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Is Oneka a male or female name?
- Oneka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Oneka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Oneka in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oneka.
- Where is Oneka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oneka is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oneka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 203 people named Oneka in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Oneka compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Oneka is the 384th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/onekaThe 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, “Oneka” — the 384th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.