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The OSTENBERG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 167 100194 0 1
United States (1880 census) 17 76873 0 0
Change since 1880 +150 -23321 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OSTENBERG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 46 43810 0.000 1
Washington 36 18321 0.001 6
Colorado 20 24228 0.000 5
Minnesota 13 45624 0.000 3
Oklahoma 11 23612 0.000 3
Top States for OSTENBERG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Washington 36 18321 0.001 6
Colorado 20 24228 0.000 5
Oklahoma 11 23612 0.000 3
Minnesota 13 45624 0.000 3
Oregon 8 44836 0.000 2

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

Classification and Origin of OSTENBERG

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the OSTENBERG surname.

Ethnic distribution of OSTENBERG in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 148 88.62
Native American/Alaskan 13 7.78
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

OSTENBERG is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of OSTENBERG in historical publications

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

Similar names to OSTENBERG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OSTENBERG.

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 OSTENBERG

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