Oldenburger
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A warmblood horse from the northwestern corner of Lower Saxony, formerly the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oʊɫdənbɝɡɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oldenburger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 14K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.5M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,237 people, 2007
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 the place name Oldenburg (Niedersachsen), attested 1345 as Ōldenborch ‘(zur) alten Burg’; bearer count 315.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Oldenburger is read(measured from records)
Oldenburger is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English45%
A warmblood horse from the northwestern corner of Lower Saxony, formerly the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German34%
Toponymic surname from the place name Oldenburg (Niedersachsen), attested 1345 as Ōldenborch ‘(zur) alten Burg’; bearer count 315.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
- Dutch11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Oldenburger in Dutch.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oldenburger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,237 | 1 in 14K | 1.2K | Oldenburger | 5 |
| US United States | 203 | 1 in 1.6M | 203 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 31 | 1 in 1.5M | 31 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
1,237 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)
- Philipp Andreas Oldenburgerb. 1617DEGerman historian and jurist
- Rufus Oldenburgerb. 1908USAmerican mathematician and mechanical engineer
- Hans Oldenburgerb. 1913DEGerman graphic designer (1913-1991)
- Aaltjo Oldenburgerb. 1920NLDutch Righteous Among the Nations
- Fred Oldenburgerb. 1953NLDutch association football player
- Leo Oldenburgerb. 1965NLDutch television presenter
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.2K | #1,306 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 203 | #90,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 189 | #101,718 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 175 | #96,480 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 31 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #46,090 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #123,970 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Oldenburger come from?
- Toponymic surname from the place name Oldenburg (Niedersachsen), attested 1345 as Ōldenborch ‘(zur) alten Burg’; bearer count 315. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Oldenburger?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊɫdənbɝɡɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Oldenburger mean?
- In English, A warmblood horse from the northwestern corner of Lower Saxony, formerly the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
- In which country does Oldenburger have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Oldenburger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oldenburger.
- Where is Oldenburger most common?
- Oldenburger is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Oldenburger?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,237 people named Oldenburger in 2007, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oldenburgerThe 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, “Oldenburger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.