The OTTEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,117	7452	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	644	7880	0.001	13
Change since 1880	+3473	+428	+0.001	+2
Other Countries
Australia	135	10908	0.001	8
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for OTTEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	464	2721	0.004	37
California	374	7152	0.001	11
Missouri	323	2249	0.006	58
Minnesota	320	1807	0.007	65
Ohio	237	5728	0.002	21
Top States for OTTEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	98	858	0.013	130
Minnesota	320	1807	0.007	65
Missouri	323	2249	0.006	58
Montana	44	2849	0.005	49
Iowa	137	2907	0.005	47

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of OTTEN

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic distribution of OTTEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	85	2.06
White (Hispanic)	57	1.38
Mixed Race	38	0.92
Black/African American	34	0.83
Asian/Pacific	23	0.56
White (Caucasian)	3,880	94.24

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

Similar names to OTTEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OTTEN.

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.