The Orth surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,345 people carried this name — #5,482 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 46,500 people counted. That is up 1% from 6,284 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 261 people named Orth.
35 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 28 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
102 people named Orth live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
46 people named Orth is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Orth in American newspapers,
1906–1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 352,360 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Orth,
with a public archive behind them.
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Wigand Orth 1537–1566 · university teacher -
Henrich Orth d. 1575 · preacher
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Conrad Orth ab Hagen 1523–1589 · provost
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Zacharias Orth 1530–1579 · writer
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Philipp Orth 1534–1603 · politician
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Jakob Orth 1550–1602 · parson
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Orth.
- Orsi 1,100 · U.S. census
- Orsini 3,055 · U.S. census
- Orso 1,142 · U.S. census
- Orta 7,820 · U.S. census
- Ortega 127,256 · U.S. census
- Ortel 320 · U.S. census
- Ortis 1,584 · U.S. census
- Ortiz 286,899 · U.S. census
- Ortlieb 719 · U.S. census
- Ortolani 349 · U.S. census
- Orts 197 · U.S. census
- Ortuno 2,058 · U.S. census
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