Otniel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/otɲjel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Otniel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Guinea-Bissau it is the 79th most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 357K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 916K
- GWGuinea-Bissau≈1 in 26K
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)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
593 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Guinea-Bissau, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Otniel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 593 | 1 in 357K | 593 | Otniel | 50 |
| US United States | — | 363 | 1 in 916K | 359 | Otniel | 93 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Otniel | 8 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Otniel | 17 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Otniel | 14 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | #79 | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Otniel | 6 |
| MD Moldova | — | 44 | 1 in 76K | 44 | — | — |
593 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living 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)
Otniel 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 Polish, Othniel (the first of the biblical judges)
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.
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 593 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 589 | #11,884 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 472 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 366 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 359 | #25,917 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 352 | #7,826 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 346 | #18,066 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 262 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 156 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 121 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 106 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 106 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Otniel a male or female name?
- Otniel 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.
- How do you pronounce Otniel?
- A machine transcription gives /otɲjel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Otniel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 593 people named Otniel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled otniel.
- How common is the name Otniel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 593 people named Otniel in 2022, about 1 in 357 thousand residents.
- How common is Otniel compared with other names?
- In Guinea-Bissau, Otniel is the 79th most common given name of 117 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Otniel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/otnielThe 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, “Otniel” — the 79th most common given name in Guinea-Bissau. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.