Oana
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oana is a given name, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Ioana.
- RORomania1 in 296◐
- ECEcuador1 in 14K
- DEGermany1 in 74K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈75K ●
- Sources
- 156 ●
- 1 in 296 ◐
across 12 countries
9.6K records
Official registry-verified
Romania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Oaña in PH Philippines.
Meaning & origin●
Clipping of Ioana.
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #29 | 72,012△ | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 296 | 72K | Oana | 78 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,635 | 1.8K rec. | — | 1 | Oana | 97 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,202△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Oana | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 832 | 845 rec. | — | — | Oana | 74 |
| US United States | — | 739 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 450K | 739 | Oana | 156 |
| ES Spain | — | 327 | 411 rec. | 1 in 153K | 346 | Oana | 44 |
| AU Australia | — | 284 | 318 rec. | — | — | Oana | 39 |
| AT Austria | — | 272 | 234 rec. | — | 6 | Oana | 36 |
| IT Italy | — | 261 | 299 rec. | — | 1 | Oana | 41 |
| CA Canada | — | 195 | 237 rec. | — | 5 | Oana | 38 |
| SE Sweden | — | 144△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 71K | 144 | — | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 117△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 50K | 117 | — | 2 |
Roughly 72K people in Romania bear this name (about 1 in 296). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian144K54%
- English79K30%
- Romanian22K8%
- Spanish9.2K3%
- French4.1K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 144,133 | 54% |
| English | 79,087 | 30% |
| Romanian | 21,540 | 8% |
| Spanish | 9,188 | 3% |
| French | 4,057 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Oana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, Reciprocal form of -oa: to marry each other
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, essive singular of uba
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 16 |
| 2006 | 17 |
| 2007 | 24 |
| 2008 | 30 |
| 2009 | 38 |
| 2010 | 51 |
| 2011 | 65 |
| 2012 | 62 |
| 2013 | 70 |
| 2014 | 76 |
| 2015 | 81 |
| 2016 | 87 |
| 2017 | 92 |
| 2018 | 92 |
| 2019 | 94 |
| 2020 | 95 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 20 years between 2001–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Oana Lungescub. 1958RORomanian journalist
- Oana Pelleab. 1962RORomanian actress
- Oana Solomonb. 1966DEGerman actress
- Oana Cuzinob. 1971RORomanian journalist
- Oana Pantelimonb. 1972ROathletics competitor
- Oana Zăvoranub. 1973RORomanian actress
- Oana Giurgiub. 1975ROfilm producer (born 1975)
- Oana Banb. 1986RORomanian gymnast
- Oana Nechitib. 1988ROGerman-Romanian dancer
- Oana Gregoryb. 1996RORomanian actress and model
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●
Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2023 | 72K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2023 | 72K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1.2K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.2K | #828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 739 | #15,541 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 346 | #2,730 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 327 | #6,214 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2015 | 267 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 162 | #19,401 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 162 | #19,287 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 144 | #6,043 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 144 | #6,660 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 111 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Oana?
- We estimate roughly 75 thousand people bear Oana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Oana have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 72 thousand people bear Oana in Romania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled oana.
- Where is Oana most common?
- Oana is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 296 people carrying it.
- How common is Oana compared with other names?
- In Romania, Oana is the 29th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
- Is Oana a male or female name?
- Oana 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.
- What does the name Oana mean?
- Recorded meaning: Clipping of Ioana.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Oana” — the 29th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.