Oweis

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/oʊaɪz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Oweis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

151 people, 2010

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Oweis 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.

Where Oweis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1511 in 2.2M265Oweis4
CZ Czechia71 in 1.5M7——
FR France———Oweis30
GB United Kingdom——9——
IT Italy——3——

151 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Oweis is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Õwéįš

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Oweis,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Oweis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020265#77,921
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010151#115,639
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000115#134,929
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20029#154,387
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—7#99,074
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 do you pronounce Oweis?
A machine transcription gives /oʊaɪz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Oweis have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 151 people named Oweis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oweis.
Where is Oweis most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oweis is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Oweis?
In the United States, the national register counted 151 people named Oweis in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.

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The 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, “Oweis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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