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The OETKEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 463 43875 0 2
United States (1880 census) 29 63757 0 1
Change since 1880 +434 +19882 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OETKEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 111 2859 0.004 38
Texas 45 23513 0.000 2
Nebraska 42 4777 0.002 25
Colorado 27 15080 0.001 6
Kansas 26 9649 0.001 10
Top States for OETKEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Iowa 111 2859 0.004 38
Nebraska 42 4777 0.002 25
South Dakota 18 5899 0.002 24
Wyoming 8 7060 0.002 16
Kansas 26 9649 0.001 10

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called OETKEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called OETKEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called OETKEN in Iowa than any other state, but you are more likely to find a OETKEN by picking someone at random in Iowa than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of OETKEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the OETKEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of OETKEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 450 97.19
Mixed Race 5 1.08
White (Hispanic) 5 1.08
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the OETKEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of OETKEN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of OETKEN.

Similar names to OETKEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OETKEN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for OETKEN

The following words are slight variants of OETKEN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.