Offen
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Pronunciation spelling of often
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Offen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 880K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 100K
- DEGermany≈1 in 182K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Offen or Ofen is the German name of Buda-(pest), the western part of the Hungarian capital.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Offen is read(measured from records)
Offen is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English72%
Pronunciation spelling of often.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
open
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Offen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Offen | 48 |
| US United States | 378 | 1 in 880K | 380 | Offen | 159 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 226K | 394 | Offen | 77 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Offen | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Offen | 29 |
| AU Australia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 388K | — | Offen | 37 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Offen | 21 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Offen | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Offen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Offen or Ofen is the German name of Buda-(pest), the western part of the Hungarian capital.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anna Katharina von Offenb. 1624DEGerman courtier and royal governess (1624-1702)
- Yehuda Offenb. 1922ILpoet, songwriter and journalist
- Bernard Offenb. 1929PLPolish concentration camp survivor
- Ron Offenb. 1930USAmerican poet, dramatist
- Helga Offenb. 1951DEGerman volleyball player
- Karen M. Offenb. 1953GBBritish historian
- Sven Offenb. 2000DEGerman director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 394 | #13,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 380 | #51,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 378 | #54,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 348 | #62,198 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Offen come from?
- Offen or Ofen is the German name of Buda-(pest), the western part of the Hungarian capital. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What does the name Offen mean?
- In English, Pronunciation spelling of often.
- In which country does Offen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 441 people named Offen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled offen.
- How common is the name Offen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 378 people named Offen in 2010, about 1 in 880 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/offenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Offen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.