# Outen (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/outen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Dutch.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Dutch |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,327 |
| US rank (2010) | 20,125 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 232,664 people |
| Change since 2000 | +11% (1,195 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, topographic surname from Middle English ove (“above”) (from Old English ufan) + toun (“village, town”). Also a variant of Oulton, Oughton (itself from Old English Ofa + tun). * As a Dutch surname, variant spelling of Ooten.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Outen in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 61% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 35% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Outen in the United States.

## People named Outen

- Savannah Outen, American singer

## Similar surnames

Otten, Outten, Ooten, Odom, Oden, Odum.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.