The ODEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,786	4218	0.003	29
United States (1880 census)	1,751	3361	0.004	35
Change since 1880	+6035	-857	-0.001	-6
Other Countries
Australia	9	96665	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for ODEN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,150	709	0.026	259
Texas	903	2731	0.004	43
California	629	4922	0.002	19
Florida	312	6770	0.002	20
Ohio	312	4826	0.003	27
Top States for ODEN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	1,150	709	0.026	259
Arkansas	230	1695	0.009	86
Oklahoma	273	1868	0.008	79
Tennessee	306	2803	0.005	54
Washington DC	29	2271	0.005	51

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ODEN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ODEN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ODEN in Alabama than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ODEN by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ODEN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Denmark

Language of origin: Danish

Ethnic origin: Scandinavian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ODEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ODEN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ODEN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	161	2.07
Mixed Race	140	1.8
Native American/Alaskan	53	0.68
Asian/Pacific	31	0.4
White (Caucasian)	4,942	63.47
Black/African American	2,459	31.58

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ODEN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ODEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ODEN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.