Ori
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An individual's spiritual intuition and destiny, according to Yoruba beliefs
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 35 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈɔɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ori is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 208K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.5K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.8K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An individual's spiritual intuition and destiny, according to Yoruba beliefs.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Ori, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ori 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.
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)Ori is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma plural de Oro ou de Orio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In ko-pro, a fishing hook with several barbs
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In xgn-pro, young, energetic
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ko-pro, alder
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Odia.
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)- Ori Reismanb. 1924ILIsraeli painter (1924-1991)
- Uri Ben-Arib. 1925ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli general and writer
- Ori Orrb. 1939ILIsraeli politician
- Ori Sivanb. 1963ILIsraeli film director and screenwriter
- Ori Kaplanb. 1969ILIsraeli musician
- Ori Shavitb. 1972ILvegan food journalist and animal rights advocate
- Ori Grossb. 1974ILIsraeli screenwriter
- Ori Pfefferb. 1975ILIsraeli actor
- Ori Yanivb. 1982ILIsraeli actor
- Ori Marmurfilm producer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)67 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 679 | #35,638 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 613 | #36,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 542 | #38,395 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Ori mean, and where does it come from?
- An individual's spiritual intuition and destiny, according to Yoruba beliefs. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ori a male or female name?
- Ori is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026) and Brazil (IBGE).
- What are other forms of the name Ori?
- In the etymology graph, Uri is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ori?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɔɹi/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- In which country does Ori have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Ori in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ori.
- How common is the name Ori?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,597 people named Ori in 2020, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ori?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oriThe 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, “Ori”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.