Ochieng
surname · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ochieng is a surname, most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Born during the daytime.
- KEKenya1 in 97◐
- USUnited States1 in 929K
- UGUganda1 in 4.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈482 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 145 ●
- 1 in 124K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
49K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Очиенг in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Born during the daytime
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #3 | 393,771 | 46K rec. | — | 3 | Ochieng | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 441 | 190 rec. | — | — | Ochieng | 40 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 432 | 165 rec. | — | — | Ochieng | 19 |
| US United States | — | 358 | 2.4K rec. | 1 in 929K | 631 | Ochieng | 145 |
| AU Australia | — | 125 | 142 rec. | — | — | Ochieng | 21 |
| UG Uganda | #399 | 112 | 52 rec. | — | listed | Ochieng | 29 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | 74 | 278 rec. | — | — | Ochieng | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 57 | 51 rec. | — | — | Ochieng | 29 |
| NO Norway | — | 44△ | 15 rec. | 1 in 124K | 44 | Ochieng | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 41 | 41 rec. | — | — | Ochieng | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 40 | 82 rec. | — | — | Ochieng | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 38△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 147K | 38 | — | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili387K99%
- English1.6K1%
- Arabic5491%
- 3131%
- Spanish2461%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 387,088 | 99% |
| English | 1,630 | 1% |
| Arabic | 549 | 1% |
| 313 | 1% | |
| Spanish | 246 | 1% |
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●
Ochieng 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.
Bom during the daytime
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
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●
- J. P. R. Ochieng'-Oderob. 1957KEKenyan writer and radio playwright
- Washington Yotto Ochiengb. 1964KEProfessor in Positioning & Navigation Systems at Imperial College London
- Kennedy Ochiengb. 1971KEAthletics competitor from Kenya
- Edgar Ochiengb. 1977KEKenyan footballer
- Willis Ochiengb. 1981KEKenyan footballer
- Caroline Mwathab. 1981KEnot in their usual namehuman rights activist from Kenya
- Pascal Ochiengb. 1986KEfootballer
- Eugene Ochiengb. 1993KEcricketer
- Henry Ochiengb. 1998GBFootballer (born 1998)
- Bertha Mary Ngeso OchiengGBresearcher
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 22 sources across 15 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ochieng?
- We estimate roughly 482 people bear Ochieng (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ochieng have the most bearers?
- Ochieng is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled ochieng.
- How common is Ochieng compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Ochieng is the 3rd most common surname of 163,280 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Ochieng mean?
- Recorded meaning: Born during the daytime
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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, “Ochieng” — the 3rd most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.