Onesimo

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Greek, 'useful, favorable, fruitful'

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/onesimo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Onesimo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela1 in 19K(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 69K
  • BRBrazil1 in 223K

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.

Venezuela (measured from records)

1,479 people

Sources
141 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Greek, 'useful, favorable, fruitful'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Onesimo 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.

Where Onesimo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela—1,4791 in 19K1.5KOnesimo13
US United States—1,2701 in 262K1.3KOnesimo141
BR Brazil—9501 in 223K1.2KOnesimo54
PH Philippines—≈870 est.≈1 in 126KlistedOnesimo17
AO Angola—≈760 est.≈1 in 43K—Onesimo14
DO Dominican Republic#700≈710 est.≈1 in 15K—Onesimo12
PE Peru—≈460 est.≈1 in 69K—Onesimo30
PA Panama#775≈250 est.≈1 in 15K—Onesimo12

1,479 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Onesimo is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Onésimo, Onasimus

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Onésimo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Onésimo

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, Tanzania, United States, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Onésimo

  • Italian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy

    Also written Onésimo, Onesimus, Onésimus

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Peru, South Africa

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Onésimo

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States

    Also written Onésimo

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru

    Also written Onésimo

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

InformalHola Onesimo,Hi Onesimo, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Onesimo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—1.5K#1,121
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#10,479
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—1.2K#3,332
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.2K#8,225
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022950—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—949#8,586
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990897—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980793—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1970627—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1960394—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1960233—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1950212—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Onesimo mean, and where does it come from?
Greek, 'useful, favorable, fruitful'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
How do you pronounce Onesimo?
A machine transcription gives /onesimo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Onesimo a male or female name?
Onesimo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Onesimo have the most bearers?
In Venezuela, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Onesimo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled onesimo.
How common is the name Onesimo?
In Venezuela, the national register counted 1,479 people named Onesimo, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Onesimo compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Onesimo is the 700th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Onesimo?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/onesimo

The 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, “Onesimo” — the 700th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Onesimo parses inside a full name →