Officer
loc · Latin script
Meaning: probably a corruption of OFr orfroisier, a maker of orphrey or gold-embroidery; first attested Alicia aurifrigeria 13th SRLo
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Officer is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Australia.
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 258 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Officer- in US United States.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)probably a corruption of OFr orfroisier, a maker of orphrey or gold-embroidery; first attested Alicia aurifrigeria 13th SRLo
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Officer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | — | — | Officer | 93 |
| US United States | — | 1.4K | Officer- | 258 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 400 | — | 99 |
| ES Spain | — | 7 | — | 6 |
| IN India | — | 2 | — | 30 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Officer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, office, from ANF officer (an agent deriv. of OF office duty, service, hofficium service, task). 2. occupational name for a sewer of gold embroidery, from ANF orfroiser (an agent deriv. of OF orfrois, LL auriphyrigium Phrygian gold—the Phrygians being famed in antiquity for their gold embroidery). Var. (of 1): Office.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, kugba, ko-gi- banga, kpayia lé-mo
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In enm, A hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve, especially at an estate.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, officer, a military person of fänrik grade or higher
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ned Officerb. 1869AUAustralian rules footballer
- Edward Officerb. 1871AUAustralian artist (1871-1921)
- Keith Officerb. 1889AUAustralian diplomat and civil servant
- Bert Officerb. 1899AUAustralian rules footballer
- Charles B. Officerb. 1926geophysicist
- Lawrence H. Officerb. 1940USeconomist (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Jill Officerb. 1975CACanadian curler
- Charles Officerb. 1976CACanadian film and television director, writer, actor, and professional hockey player
- Jordan Officerb. 1976CACanadian jazz, blues and country musician
- David OfficerNZNew Zealand chemist
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
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,426 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,814 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,272 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 400 | #13,397 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Officer mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a corruption of OFr orfroisier, a maker of orphrey or gold-embroidery; first attested Alicia aurifrigeria 13th SRLo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Officer have the most bearers?
- Officer is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled officer.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/officerThe 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, “Officer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.