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    The surname Ooten

    A Dutch surname, carried by 1,052 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex O350

    Ooten: #23,978 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Ooten #23,978, 1,052 people Ooten: #23,978 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Ooten #23,978, 1,052 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ooten is more common than 85.2% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    Variant spelling of Dutch Uten, perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā (“outside of”), similar to Outen.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,052 people named Ooten in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 293,484 Americans. That is up 231% since 2000, when the Census counted 318.

    #23,978
    rank among US surnames
    1,052
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +230.8%
    change since 2000 (was #59,453)

    Who is named Ooten

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

    90% of people named Ooten identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Ooten

    Ooten has the Soundex code O350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O350.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Ooten come from?
    Variant spelling of Dutch Uten, perhaps ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā (“outside of”), similar to Outen.
    How common is the surname Ooten?
    1,052 people in the United States had the surname Ooten in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 293,484 Americans. It ranked 23,978th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Ooten?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Ooten identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Ooten getting more or less common?
    More common. 318 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,052 in 2010, up 231%.