Ơi

given name · Latin script

Meaning: vocative particle; oh, hey

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ơi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 237K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 351K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 508K

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)

574 people, 2020

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 237K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Oi in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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(measured from records)

vocative particle; oh, hey

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ơi 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 Ơi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5741 in 580K504Oi17
SE Sweden431 in 237K43—1
NL Netherlands341 in 508K34Oi2
DK Denmark111 in 534K11—1
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2——
IS Iceland11 in 351K1—1

574 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Ơi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, Nigeria, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Oi, Ōi, Ôi, O-I

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Ối, Ôi, Oi, Ổi, Òi

  • French given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Côte d’Ivoire, Canada

    Also written Oi, Oï, Oî, Ồi, Óî

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ơi under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ơi mean, and where does it come from?
vocative particle; oh, hey Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Ơi?
In the etymology graph, เอย and អើយ are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Ơi a male or female name?
Ơi is a female 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 Ơi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 574 people named Ơi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oi.
Where is Ơi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ơi is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 237 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ơi?
In the United States, the national register counted 574 people named Ơi in 2020, about 1 in 580 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C6%A1i

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, “Ơi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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