Führen

surname · Latin script

Meaning: to lead (A Frequency Dictionary of German)

Führen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 107 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 161K(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 900Kfew records
  • USUnited States≈1 in 150Mfew records

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

107 people, 2007

Record sources
29 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Fuhren in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

to lead

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Führen is found

(measured from records)

Führen 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.

Where Führen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands1071 in 161K107Fuhren11
DE Germany≈93 est.≈1 in 897K—Fuhren29
US United States≈2 est.≈1 in 153M—Fuhren10

107 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Führen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Fuhren

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Führen under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Führen mean, and where does it come from?
to lead Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Führen?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 107 people named Führen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fuhren. After it come Germany and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Führen most common?
Führen is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 161 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Führen?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 107 people named Führen in 2007, about 1 in 161 thousand residents.

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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, “Führen” — ranked 18026th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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