Orden
surname · Latin script
Meaning: order (command)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔɹdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Orden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 74K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 165K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 47K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈920 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
order (command)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Orden 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Orden | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 674 | 1 in 74K | 674 | Orden | 102 |
| AR Argentina | — | 276 | 1 in 165K | 276 | Orden | 49 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #833 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Orden | 9 |
| US United States | — | 175 | 1 in 1.9M | 196 | Orden | 60 |
| FI Finland | — | 96 | 1 in 58K | 96 | — | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Orden is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, an order (society, religious, of knights, or masonic)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a neighborhood of Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of urdir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, order, neatness (proper arrangement of things)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, order (awarded decoration)
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)
- Alex Ordenb. 1916USPh.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1950
- Erica OrdenUSAmerican journalist
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 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 674 | #6,268 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 674 | #6,268 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 276 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 196 | #98,894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 175 | #102,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 175 | #96,480 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #37,155 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Orden mean, and where does it come from?
- order (command) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Orden?
- In the etymology graph, Ordinario is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Orden?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔɹdən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Orden have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 922 people named Orden in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orden.
- How common is the name Orden?
- In Spain, the national register counted 674 people named Orden, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Orden compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Orden is the 833rd most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ordenThe 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, “Orden” — the 833rd most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.