Ovidiu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ovidiu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name.
- RORomania≈1 in 453(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 19K
- DEGermany≈1 in 83K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 453 (inferred from the name graph)
≈47,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, 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 across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ovidiu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #69 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 453 | — | Ovidiu | 161 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | Ovidiu | 59 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Ovidiu | 84 |
| FR France | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Ovidiu | 3 |
| MD Moldova | — | 662 | 1 in 5.1K | 662 | — | 18 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Ovidiu | 24 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 5 | Ovidiu | 38 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living population register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Ovidiu 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 Latvian, pilsēta Rumānijā, Konstancas žudecā, 13800 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovanb. 1942RORomanian actor (1942–2008)
- Ovidiu Ganțb. 1966RORomanian politician
- Ovidiu Stângăb. 1972RORomanian footballer
- Ovidiu Cernăuțeanub. 1974RORomanian-Norwegian singer
- Ovidiu Niculescub. 1974RORomanian actor
- Ovidiu Savinb. 1977RORomanian mathematician
- Ovidiu Burcăb. 1980RORomanian association football player
- Ovidiu Hațeganb. 1980RORomanian football referee
- Ovidiu Hobanb. 1982RORomanian footballer
- Ovidiu Antonb. 1983RORomanian singer-songwriter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How common is the name Ovidiu?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 662 people named Ovidiu, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Ovidiu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Ovidiu is the 69th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
- Is Ovidiu a male or female name?
- Ovidiu 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.
- In which country does Ovidiu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Ovidiu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ovidiu.
What do you want to know about Ovidiu?
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/ovidiuThe 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, “Ovidiu” — the 69th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.