Onica
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Onica is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. In Guyana it is the 96th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 18K◐
- USUnited States1 in 959K
- GYGuyana1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈654 ●
- Sources
- 121 ●
- 1 in 2.4K ◐
across 2 countries
6.3K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ónica in CL Chile.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | 1,872 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Onica | 23 |
| US United States | — | 347 | 2.5K rec. | 1 in 959K | 347 | Onica | 121 |
| GY Guyana | #96 | 307 | 673 rec. | 1 in 2.4K | 307 | Onica | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 87 | 126 rec. | — | — | Onica | 21 |
| IN India | — | 64 | 11 rec. | — | 4 | Onica | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 38 | 12 rec. | — | — | Onica | 11 |
| AU Australia | — | 36 | 58 rec. | — | — | Onica | 16 |
| CL Chile | — | 34 | 8 rec. | — | 1 | Ónica | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 32 | 156 rec. | — | 185 | Onica | 12 |
| CA Canada | — | 30 | 63 rec. | — | — | Onica | 9 |
| RO Romania | — | 28 | 58 rec. | — | — | Onica | 23 |
| MX Mexico | — | 28 | 231 rec. | — | — | Onica | 11 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.3K60%
- Swahili6549%
- Spanish4186%
- Romanian1863%
- English (Guyana)1833%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,272 | 60% |
| Swahili | 654 | 9% |
| Spanish | 418 | 6% |
| Romanian | 186 | 3% |
| English (Guyana) | 183 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 8 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 12 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 12 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 7 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2014 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 33 years between 1971–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 23 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 347 | #26,490 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 307 | #309 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 185 | #17,600 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 185 | #17,512 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,195 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #111,830 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 12 | — |
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 · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Onica?
- We estimate roughly 654 people bear Onica (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
- In which country does Onica have the most bearers?
- Onica is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled onica.
- Where is Onica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Onica is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Onica compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Onica is the 96th most common given name of 22,162 given names recorded there.
- Is Onica a male or female name?
- Onica 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.
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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, “Onica” — the 96th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.