Ornes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present subjunctive of ornar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/oɾnes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Ornes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 85K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 540Kfew records
- ESSpain1 in 926K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
145 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)second-person singular present subjunctive of ornar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ornes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 145 | 1 in 2.3M | 162 | Ornes | 100 |
| BR Brazil | 142 | 1 in 1.5M | 142 | Ornes | 19 |
| ES Spain | 54 | 1 in 926K | 54 | Ornes | 14 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 543K | — | Ornes | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | Ornes | 6 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Ornes | 10 |
| NO Norway | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Ornes | 9 |
145 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Ornes 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, a farm in Luster, Inner Sogn district, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of orner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active subjunctive of ōrnō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite genitive singular of orne
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)- Germán Ornesb. 1919DODominican journalist and editor
- Maricusa Ornesb. 1926DODominican activist
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 162 | #114,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 158 | #104,819 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 145 | #119,508 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 142 | #48,466 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 54 | #42,169 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54 | #42,040 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 40 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Ornes mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present subjunctive of ornar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ornes?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /oɾnes/; in Portuguese /ɔɾnɛʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ornes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 145 people named Ornes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ornes.
- Where is Ornes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ornes is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 85 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ornes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 145 people named Ornes in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 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/ornesThe 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, “Ornes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.