How common is the surname Ogren?

2,190 people in the United States had the surname Ogren in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,980 Americans. It ranked 13,806th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ogren?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Ogren identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Ogren getting more or less common?

More common. 2,148 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,190 in 2010, up 2.0%.

The surname Ogren

A Swedish surname, carried by 2,190 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O265

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ogren is more common than 91.5% of them.

Origin

Swedish origin

Borrowed from Swedish Ögren, from ö (“island”) + gren (“branch”).

One of 133 Swedish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,190 people named Ogren in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 140,980 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,148.

#13,806

rank among US surnames

2,190

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+2%

change since 2000 (was #13,071)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,798	Fassett	2,191	140,915
#13,806	Mizrahi	2,190	140,980
#13,810	Rayborn	2,189	141,044
#13,815	O'Rear	2,188	141,109

Who is named Ogren

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Ogren identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Two or more races 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Ogren

O'Gorman

Ogren has the Soundex code O265, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O265.

Other Swedish surnames

All 133 Swedish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Ogren come from?: Borrowed from Swedish Ögren, from ö (“island”) + gren (“branch”).
How common is the surname Ogren?: 2,190 people in the United States had the surname Ogren in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,980 Americans. It ranked 13,806th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ogren?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Ogren identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Ogren getting more or less common?: More common. 2,148 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,190 in 2010, up 2.0%.