Oehlen
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
Oehlen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3Mas Ohlen(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 326K
- SESweden≈1 in 56Kas Ohlen
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 Oehlen 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)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 326K (inferred from the name graph)
≈620 named Ohlen, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ohlen in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Oehlen 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Ohlen | 55 |
| SE Sweden | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Ohlen | 10 |
| US United States | 112as Ohlen | 1 in 3M | 124 | Ohlen | 113 |
| NL Netherlands | 53 | 1 in 326K | 53 | Ohlen | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Ohlen | 7 |
| NO Norway | 22as Ohlen | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 14as Ohlen | 1 in 837K | 14 | Ohlen | 1 |
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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Adolf Oehlenb. 1914DEGerman illustrator and caricaturist (1914–1972)
- Jos Oehlenb. 1953NLDutch sculptor
- Albert Oehlenb. 1954DEGerman artist (born 1954)
- Markus Oehlenb. 1956DEGerman artist (born 1956)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 53 | #29,888 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Oehlen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 615 people named Ohlen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Oehlen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oehlen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 326 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oehlen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 53 people named Oehlen in 2007, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Oehlen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oehlenThe 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 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, “Oehlen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.