Oras
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: shoot or shoots of cereal or cultivated hay, usually collectively
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɔɹəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 13K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
- ESSpain1 in 3.6M
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
427 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
shoot or shoots of cereal or cultivated hay, usually collectively
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Oras is read(measured from records)
Oras is one spelling over 5 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.
- English48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Oras in English.
- Finnish30%
shoot or shoots of cereal or cultivated hay, usually collectively
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Estonian14%
shoots, braird
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish9.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Oras in Spanish.
- Turkish9.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Oras in Turkish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Oras 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.
427 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Oras is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, an hour; a time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of ōrō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person singular present indicative of orar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, shoot or shoots of cereal or cultivated hay
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)
- Juhan Orasb. 1879EEEstonian politician (1879-1922)
- Voldemar Orasb. 1885EEEstonian politician (1885-?)
- Paul Orasb. 1897EEEstonian and Soviet military personnel and diplomat (1897-1943)
- Ants Orasb. 1900EEEstonian literary scholar and translator (1900-1982)
- Katrin Jakobib. 1909EEnot in their usual nameEstonian writer (1909-1986)
- Riho Orasb. 1953EEEstonian technologist (born 1953)
- Janika Orasb. 1963EEEstonian folklorist and musicologist (born 1963)
- Johanna Orasb. 1970FIFinnish painter
- Allan Orasb. 1975EEEstonian cyclist (born 1975)
- Ester Orasb. 1984EEEstonian archaeologist and chemist (born 1984)
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 427 | #3,958 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 238 | #193 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 204 | #280 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 165 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 38 | #126,822 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #176,054 |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 Oras mean, and where does it come from?
- shoot or shoots of cereal or cultivated hay, usually collectively Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Oras?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔɹəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Oras have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 427 people named Oras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oras.
- Where is Oras most common?
- Oras is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Oras?
- In Finland, the national register counted 427 people named Oras, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Oras compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Oras is the 289th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/orasThe 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, “Oras” — the 289th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.