Oconnor
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oʊˈkɑnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oconnor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ireland it is the 14th most common surname.
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 2.8K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.6K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #947 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 441 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
77,923 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled O'Connor in AU Australia, IE Ireland, NZ New Zealand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oconnor 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #310 | 77,923 | 1 in 4.3K | 78K | Oconnor | 441 |
| GB United Kingdom | #190 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 30K | Oconnor | 241 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Oconnor | 9 |
| AU Australia | #133 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | O'Connor | 178 |
| IT Italy | #556 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Oconnor | 28 |
| IE Ireland | #14 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | O'Connor | 141 |
| NZ New Zealand | #153 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | O'Connor | 93 |
77,923 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 78K | #417 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 76K | #416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 75K | #385 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 763 | #8,220 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Oconnor?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊˈkɑnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Oconnor have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 78 thousand people named Oconnor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oconnor.
- How common is the name Oconnor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 77,923 people named Oconnor in 2010, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Oconnor compared with other names?
- In the United States, Oconnor is the 310th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oconnorThe 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, “Oconnor” — the 310th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.