Ós
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ós is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: an exclamation used to call attention to something or someone, ‘look, see here’.
- BRBrazil1 in 339K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 6.4K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Os in BR Brazil, EG Egypt, DZ Algeria and 3 more.
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)
an exclamation used to call attention to something or someone, ‘look, see here’
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ós 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ós is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ko-pro, clothes
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Catalan, superseded spelling of os (“bear”), deprecated in the 2016 orthographic reform by the Institute of Catalan Studies
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, alternative spelling of aos
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, estuary, mouth of the river
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, alternative form of úas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, genitive plural of osa
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ós mean, and where does it come from?
- an exclamation used to call attention to something or someone, ‘look, see here’ Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972).
- In which country does Ós have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Ós in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled os.
- Where is Ós most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ós is densest in Norway — about 1 in 6.4 thousand people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ós?
- In Norway, the national register counted 860 people named Ós, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ós?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B3sThe 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, “Ós”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.