Onofre

given name · Latin script

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

Onofre is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as Egyptian saint name; linked here to Unnofre, 'the one who opens what is good'.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ECEcuador1 in 20K
  • BRBrazil1 in 24K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

8,986 people, 2022

Sources
177 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Egyptian saint name; linked here to Unnofre, 'the one who opens what is good'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Onofre is read(measured from records)

Onofre is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish44%

    Egyptian saint name; linked here to Unnofre, 'the one who opens what is good'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

    Onuphrius

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese43%

    a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Onuphrius

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English8.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Onofre in English.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Onofre 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 Onofre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#8868,9861 in 24K14KOnofre108
PH Philippines—≈7,900 est.≈1 in 14KlistedOnofre43
ES Spain—1,1971 in 42K1.3KOnofre80
US United States—9931 in 335K3.1KOnofre177
CO Colombia—≈990 est.≈1 in 50K1—58
VE Venezuela—8491 in 34K849Onofre17
EC Ecuador#8988371 in 20K4.4KOnofre33
PY Paraguay#943≈290 est.≈1 in 25K—Onofre8

8,986 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Onofre is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Peru, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Onofré

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, United States, Spain

    Also written Onofré, Onofrè

50 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Onofre 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.

  • From an Egyptian saint's name, said to mean ‘he who opens the good’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Del Olimpo, celestial

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

1400160018002000Onofre Falcó, b. 1512Onofre Jarpa, b. 1849Onofre Betbeder, b. 1861Onofre Marimón, b. 1923Onofre Cândido Rosa, b. 1924Onofre Lovero, b. 1925Onofre Corpuz, b. 1926Onofre Quinan, b. 1926Onofre Anacleto de Souza, b. 1931Onofre Agostini, b. 1940

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 41 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Onofre
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—15K#977
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20244.4K#856
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—4.4K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.1K#10,396
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.9K#10,419
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.9K#14,391
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—384#9,873
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—384#9,868
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)202439—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—1#115
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Onofre mean, and where does it come from?
Egyptian saint name; linked here to Unnofre, 'the one who opens what is good'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
Is Onofre a male or female name?
Onofre is a male 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.
What are other forms of the name Onofre?
In the etymology graph, Onuphrius, Onouphrios and Onnophris are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Onofre have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Onofre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled onofre.
How common is the name Onofre?
In Brazil, the national register counted 8,986 people named Onofre in 2022, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
How common is Onofre compared with other names?
In Brazil, Onofre is the 886th most common given name of 474,894 given names 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, “Onofre” — the 886th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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