Orthen Surname
Approximately 491 people bear this surname
Orthen Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 476 | 1:169,129 | 19,938 |
| United States | 7 | 1:51,779,848 | 968,877 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
The alternate forms: Örthen (19), Orthén (11) & Örthén (9) are calculated separately.
Orthen Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Orthen Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Orthen occurs most in Germany. It may appear in the variant forms: Örthen, Orthén or Örthén. Click here for other possible spellings of Orthen.
How Common Is The Last Name Orthen? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 624,505th most widespread last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 14,842,252 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 98 percent of Orthen are found; 98 percent are found in Western Europe and 98 percent are found in Germanic Europe.
Orthen is most commonly held in Germany, where it is borne by 476 people, or 1 in 169,129. In Germany it is most numerous in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 50 percent live, Rhineland-Palatinate, where 32 percent live and Baden-Württemberg, where 7 percent live. Excluding Germany Orthen exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 1 percent live and Czechia, where 0 percent live.
Orthen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Orthen has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname grew 117 percent between 1880 and 2014.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Orthen
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