Oshodi
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/oʃodʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oshodi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: wizard of the other side.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
- MTMalta≈1 in 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
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)wizard of the other side
Cited for this meaning 1
- YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oshodi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Oshodi | 59 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 261K | 230 | Oshodi | 79 |
| US United States | — | 228 | 1 in 1.5M | 332 | Oshodi | 160 |
| MT Malta | #436 | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Oshodi | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Oshodi | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Oshodi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Yoruba, wizard of the other side
as a wordYorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)
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)- Eddie Oshodib. 1992GBEnglish association football player (born 1992)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 332 | #64,670 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 230 | #19,486 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 228 | #82,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 153 | #107,565 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Oshodi mean, and where does it come from?
- wizard of the other side Recorded by YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology).
- How do you pronounce Oshodi?
- A machine transcription gives /oʃodʲi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Oshodi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Oshodi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oshodi.
- How common is the name Oshodi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 228 people named Oshodi in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Oshodi compared with other names?
- In Malta, Oshodi is the 436th most common surname of 5,132 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/oshodiThe 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, “Oshodi” — the 436th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.