Owoeye
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Owoeye is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 74K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.1M
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
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)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
109 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominica
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Owoeye 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 | — | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 211 | Owoeye | 116 |
| PL Poland | — | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | 3 |
| DM Dominica | — | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | #351 | — | — | — | Owoeye | 73 |
109 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Owoeye Babajideb. 1956NGprofessor of International Relations
- Lara Owoeye WiseNGjournalist, on air personality
- Adenike Owoeye AjiboyeNGJournalist
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 211 | #93,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #184,884 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #157,038 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Owoeye have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 109 people named Owoeye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled owoeye.
- Where is Owoeye most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Owoeye is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Owoeye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 109 people named Owoeye in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
- How common is Owoeye compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Owoeye is the 351st most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/owoeyeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Owoeye” — the 351st most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.