Ogar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hound; hunting dog
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oʊɡɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ogar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 72K
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 156K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Oğar in TR Türkiye.
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)
hound; hunting dog
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ogar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Ogar | 15 |
| PL Poland | 529 | 1 in 72K | 267 | Ogar | 36 |
| US United States | 201 | 1 in 1.7M | 229 | Ogar | 11 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 504K | — | Oğar | 13 |
| CA Canada | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 643K | — | Ogar | 5 |
| TM Turkmenistan | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Ogar | 3 |
| RS Serbia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Ogar | 7 |
| HR Croatia | 21 | 1 in 201K | 24 | Ogar | 7 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)
Ogar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, greyhound; hunting dog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, sighthound
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, OGÁR, ogari, s. m. Câine de vânătoare cu botul lung, cu corpul înalt, subțire și zvelt, cu picioare lungi, foarte iute la fugă. ◊ Expr. Nici câine, nici ogar, se spune despre cel care nu aparține în mod clar unei specii sau unei grupări, unei tagme, care se găsește într-o poziție (socială, profesională etc.) confuză. (Slab) ca un ogar = foarte slab (și lipsit de vlagă).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Jolanta Ogarb. 1982PLPolish sailor
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 267 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 267 | #12,246 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 262 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 262 | #12,713 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 229 | #87,312 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 211 | #83,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 201 | #91,625 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 24 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 21 | #22,296 |
| 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
- What does the name Ogar mean, and where does it come from?
- hound; hunting dog Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ogar?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊɡɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ogar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Ogar in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ogar.
- How common is the name Ogar?
- In Poland, the national register counted 529 people named Ogar in 2026, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ogarThe 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, “Ogar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.