Ofer
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of oh for (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Ofer is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Ofer is also written עופר in Hebrew.
- PLPoland1 in 213K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
- CACanada≈1 in 520Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ofer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named עופר, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ofer in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled עופר in IL Israel, 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
(measured from records)Alternative form of oh for.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ofer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #138 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 882 | 1.2K | עופר | 145 |
| US United States | — | 556 | 1 in 598K | 551 | Ofer | 210 |
| PL Poland | — | 180 | 1 in 213K | 171 | — | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Ofer | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 521K | — | Ofer | 34 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 442K | 3 | Ofer | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | עופר | 4 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Ofer 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.
Ciervo joven, cervato
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Romanian, first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of oferi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, futile, vain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, over, above
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)- Ofer Bar-Yosefb. 1937ILIsraeli prehistorian (1937–2020)
- Ofer Lahavb. 1959GBIsraeli-British astronomer
- Offer Nissimb. 1963ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli DJ and producer
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ofer mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of oh for. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ofer a male or female name?
- Ofer is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026).
- Which countries have the most people named Ofer?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named עופר in Israel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Poland, Cyprus and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ofer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 556 people named Ofer in 2020, about 1 in 598 thousand residents.
- How common is Ofer compared with other names?
- In Israel, Ofer is the 138th most common given name of 107,303 given names 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/oferThe 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, “Ofer” — ranked 1156th in Israel (CBS Israel). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.