Onnen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: D’origine celtique, signifie « frêne »

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

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

Onnen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • DEGermany
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

D’origine celtique, signifie « frêne ».

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Onnen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Nom breton; forme celtique traditionnelle.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Welsh, singulative of onn or ynn (“ash trees”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dum, to grant, to bestow (out of kindness or generosity)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, genitive singular of onni

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

190019502000Jakobus Onnen, b. 1906Eike Onnen, b. 1982Imke Onnen, b. 1994

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 Onnen,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Onnen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020550#42,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010510#42,511
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000489#41,859
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200717#52,962
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#180,950
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

What does the name Onnen mean, and where does it come from?
D’origine celtique, signifie « frêne ». Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
How do you pronounce Onnen?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɑnən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Onnen have the most bearers?
Onnen is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Onnen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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