Ocran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/oʊɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ocran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 8.1K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 504K
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.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Biblical name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ocran 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #314 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Ocran | 48 |
| US United States | — | 189 | 1 in 1.8M | 261 | Ocran | 125 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Ocran | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 504K | 131 | Ocran | 59 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Ocran | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | Ocran | 11 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Albert Kwesi Ocranb. 1929GHsoldier and politician from Ghana
- Freda Ocranb. 1968USfirst New York City nurse to die of COVID-19 (1968-2020)
- Samuel Ocranb. 1986GHfootballer
- Emmanuel Ocranb. 1996GHGhanaian association football player
- Albert OcranGHGhanaian book writer and author
- Kwamena OcranGHGhanaian politician
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 261 | #78,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 131 | #27,909 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #67,375 |
| 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 Ocran mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Ocran?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ocran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Ocran in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ocran.
- How common is the name Ocran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 189 people named Ocran in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Ocran compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Ocran is the 314th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ocranThe 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, “Ocran” — the 314th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.