Organ
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) player of a musical instrument; (ii) from the rare medieval personal name Organ, of unknown origin and meaning (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɔɹɡən/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Organ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,431 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- IEIreland≈1 in 39Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 53K
- CACanada≈1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
2,431 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Organ
- English:/ˈɔɹɡən/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Turkish:/oɾɡan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) player of a musical instrument; (ii) from the rare medieval personal name Organ, of unknown origin and meaning
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Organ is found
(measured from records)Organ 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,431 | 1 in 137K | 2.4K | Organ | 276 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 1.8K | Organ | 139 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Organ | 15 |
| CA Canada | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Organ | 103 |
| AU Australia | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Organ | 85 |
| IE Ireland | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Organ | 39 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Organ | 25 |
2,431 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Organ 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 English, sometimes metonymic for organer; first attested Robert, Thomas Organ 1210 Cur (K); from ME organ, a musical instrument
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, organ (larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, organ, pipe organ (electronic instrument designed to replicate the pipe organ)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Organ (a village in Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania, France)
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)- Marjorie Organb. 1886USIrish-born American painter (1886-1930)
- Stuart Organb. 1951GBBritish actor
- Alex Organb. 1981USAmerican actor and voice actor
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Organ mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) player of a musical instrument; (ii) from the rare medieval personal name Organ, of unknown origin and meaning Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Organ?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈɔɹɡən/ (Wiktionary); in Turkish /oɾɡan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Organ?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Organ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled organ. After it come United Kingdom, Türkiye, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Organ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,431 people named Organ in 2010, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/organThe 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, “Organ” — ranked 12696th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.