Ötjen

Name: Ötjen: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Ötjen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common

DEGermany≈1 in 73Kas Oetjen(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 1Mas Oetjen
ILIsrael≈1 in 585K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ötjen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 120 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 585K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

OetjenLatin

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Otjen

Locally spelled Oetjen in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 3 more and Otjen in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ötjen 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 Ötjen is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	≈1,100 est.	≈1 in 73K	listed	Oetjen	83
US United States	318as Oetjen	1 in 1M	339	Oetjen	120
GH Ghana	≈71 est.	≈1 in 415K	—	Oetjen	3
CA Canada	≈40 est.	≈1 in 942K	—	Oetjen	3
AU Australia	≈32 est.	≈1 in 790K	—	Oetjen	17
IL Israel	≈15 est.	≈1 in 585K	—	Otjen	1
CH Switzerland	15as Oetjen	1 in 560K	15	Oetjen	7
EE Estonia	≈4 est.	≈1 in 351K	listed	—	2

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Ötjen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name2 spellings in the group
Also written Otjen

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Ötjen have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Oetjen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Ötjen?: In the United States, the national register counted 318 people named Oetjen in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

What do you want to know about Ötjen?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6tjen

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 2026-10-10 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, “Ötjen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)