Ose
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of Operating System Embedded
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ose is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 781K
- UGUganda≈1 in 509
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.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 509 (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Initialism of Operating System Embedded.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ose is read(measured from records)
Ose is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
Initialism of Operating System Embedded.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
inflection of osar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ose in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ose 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Ose 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 French, Sens lié à « oser, audacieux »; nom de saint/nom‑jour non lisible dans l’OCR.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of ōsus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Yoruba, baobab tree, Adansonia digitata
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, dative/locative singular 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ose Itarub. 1931JPJapanese actor (1931-1995)
- Doug Oseb. 1955USAmerican politician
- Bård Oseb. 1960NONorwegian journalist and writer
- Ieva Oseb. 1961LVhistorian
- Masaru Oseb. 1965JPJapanese staff of Fuji Bank, victim of the September 11 attacks
- Victoria Oseb. 1991NONorwegian actress
- Camilla Oseb. 1996NONorwegian association football player
- Tora Oseb. 2003NONorwegian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 85 | #49,660 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39 | #49,660 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #18,719 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #17,989 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Ose mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Operating System Embedded. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ose?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈoʊz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ose have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Ose in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ose.
- How common is the name Ose?
- In Norway, the national register counted 574 people named Ose, about 1 in 9.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Ose compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Ose is the 119th most common surname of 6,307 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ose?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oseThe 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, “Ose” — the 119th most common surname in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.