Oeder

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Toponymic surname from öde/Oede ‘waste, desolate land’; also from place names/dwelling features in the Öde/Oedt group

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/oʊdɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Oeder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 19M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

247 people, 2010

Sources
55 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Öder in SE Sweden.

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(measured from records)

Toponymic surname from öde/Oede ‘waste, desolate land’; also from place names/dwelling features in the Öde/Oedt group. Bearer count: 1 (AT), 227 (DE).

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Oeder 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 Oeder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2471 in 1.3M247Oeder35
PL Poland21 in 19M2Oeder1
DE Germany———Oeder55
CA Canada———Oeder5
SE Sweden———Öder3

247 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)

Oeder is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Oéder

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Øder

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Oeder is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Toponymischer Familienname: aus einem Orts-/Wohnstättenname zu Oeder; Varianten (Oe/Ö)der. 261 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1600170018001900Matthias Oeder, b. 1600Georg Christian Oeder, b. 1728Ludwig Oeder, b. 1815Georg Oeder, b. 1846

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Oeder,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Oeder
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010247#77,522
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020234#85,854
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000197#87,729
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#373,970
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Oeder come from?
Toponymic surname from öde/Oede ‘waste, desolate land’; also from place names/dwelling features in the Öde/Oedt group. Bearer count: 1 (AT), 227 (DE). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
How do you pronounce Oeder?
A machine transcription gives /oʊdɝ/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Oeder mean?
Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from öde/Oede ‘waste, desolate land’; also from place names/dwelling features in the Öde/Oedt group.
In which country does Oeder have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 247 people named Oeder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oeder.
Where is Oeder most common?
Oeder is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Oeder?
In the United States, the national register counted 247 people named Oeder in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 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, “Oeder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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