Ohe

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ohe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Ohe 'aue, meadow by water'; also from ON Celle.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 273K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.4M
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

133 people, 2010

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Ohe: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ohe
  1. Ohe'aue(measured from records)
  2. ONCelle(measured from records)

from Ohe 'aue, meadow by water'; also from ON Celle

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ohe 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.

Where Ohe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1331 in 2.5M135Ohe19
BR Brazil881 in 2.4M88——
NO Norway201 in 273K20——
JP Japan———Ohe34

133 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ohe is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Paraguay, United States, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ohé

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Ohé

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ohe is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, to express fear, pain, etc.: ho! hey!

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nia, to bring

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In umb, contagion. *0/ie/a, lime. *0/zenda, kindness

    as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language

  • In umb, contagion

    as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language

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)

500100015002000Ōe no Masahira, b. 952Ōe no Hiromoto, b. 1143Mōri Suemitsu, b. 1202Ōe Taku, b. 1847Shintarō Ōe, b. 1876Hiroshi Ōe, b. 1913Michiko Ōe II, b. 1919Kenzaburō Ōe, b. 1935Senri Ōe, b. 1960Natsuhiko Kyōgoku, b. 1963
  • Ōe no Masahirab. 952JPnot in their usual nameJapanese poet
  • Ōe no Hiromotob. 1143JPnot in their usual namekuge and vassal of the Kamakura shogunate
  • Mōri Suemitsub. 1202JPnot in their usual namesamurai of the Kamakura period
  • Ōe Takub. 1847JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician
  • Shintarō Ōeb. 1876JPnot in their usual nameJapanese architect (1876-1935)
  • Hiroshi Ōeb. 1913JPnot in their usual nameJapanese architect (1913-1989)
  • Michiko Ōe IIb. 1919JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
  • Kenzaburō Ōeb. 1935JPnot in their usual nameJapanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)
  • Senri Ōeb. 1960JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer-songwriter, jazz pianist, and actor (1960–)
  • Natsuhiko Kyōgokub. 1963JPnot in their usual namenovelist

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)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ohe mean, and where does it come from?
from Ohe 'aue, meadow by water'; also from ON Celle Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
In which country does Ohe have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 133 people named Ohe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ohe.
Where is Ohe most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ohe is densest in Norway — about 1 in 273 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ohe?
In the United States, the national register counted 133 people named Ohe in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.

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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, “Ohe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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