Osterhaus
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Osterhaus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 460K(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 198K
- DEGermany≈1 in 216K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 198K (inferred from the name graph)
723 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland, est.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Osterhaus 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 | 723 | 1 in 460K | 764 | Osterhaus | 158 |
| DE Germany | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Osterhaus | 57 |
| NL Netherlands | 62 | 1 in 279K | 62 | Osterhaus | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Osterhaus | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Osterhaus | 1 |
| FI Finland | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Osterhaus | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Osterhaus | 10 |
723 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Peter Joseph Osterhausb. 1823USUnion Army general
- Hugo Osterhausb. 1851USUnited States Navy Rear Admiral (1851–1927)
- Robert Osterhausb. 1931USAmerican pharmacist and politician
- Albert Osterhausb. 1948NLvirologist
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 764 | #32,304 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 723 | #31,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 623 | #34,399 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 62 | #27,020 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Osterhaus have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 723 people named Osterhaus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osterhaus.
- How common is the name Osterhaus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 723 people named Osterhaus in 2010, about 1 in 460 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/osterhausThe 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, “Osterhaus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.