The Otten surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 4,117 people carried this name — #7,452 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 65,400 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 441 people named Otten live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 60 people named Otten.
17 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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
55 people named Otten live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Otten.
- Othon 348 · U.S. census
- Ott 25,492 · U.S. census
- Otta 168 · U.S. census
- Ottaviani 371 · U.S. census
- Ottaviano 931 · U.S. census
- Otte 4,259 · U.S. census
- Otter 1,238 · U.S. census
- Ottinger 3,066 · U.S. census
- Ottino 254 · U.S. census
- Ottmann 161 · U.S. census
- Otto 22,001 · U.S. census
- Ou 2,422 · U.S. census
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