Leeuwen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of leeuw
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leːyːʋɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leeuwen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 27th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 135K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 546Kas Leven
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Leeuwen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
609 named Leven, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
plural of leeuw
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leeuwen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 609as Leven | 1 in 546K | 721 | Leeuwen | 179 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Leeuwen | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Leeuwen | 61 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 3 | Leeuwen | 48 |
| FR France | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 312K | 48 | Leeuwen | 116 |
| NL Netherlands | #27 | 128 | 1 in 135K | 128 | Leeuwen | 175 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Leeuwen | 26 |
| DK Denmark | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 5 | — | — |
609 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling leven. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Everardus Hendrikus van Leeuwenb. 1833NLDutch university teacher
- Jacobus Adrianus Cornelis van Leeuwenb. 1870NLDutch theologian (1870-1930)
- Theodoor Marius van Leeuwenb. 1876NLDutch university teacher (1876-1952)
- Therese Leeuwenb. 1906Holocaust victim (born 1906)
- Kees van Leeuwenb. 1924NLDutch theologist and university teacher (1924–2016)
- Joep van Leeuwenb. 1955NLDutch jazz musician
- Bas van Leeuwenb. 1978NLEconomic Historian
- Idelette van LeeuwenNLDutch restorer
- Jan Carel Adriaan de Kock van LeeuwenNLuniversity teacher at Leiden University
- Gerard C.M. van Leeuwenbotanist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 128 | #15,600 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Leeuwen mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of leeuw Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Leeuwen?
- A machine transcription gives /leːyːʋɛn/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Leeuwen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 609 people named Leven, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Leeuwen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 128 people named Leeuwen in 2007, about 1 in 135 thousand residents.
- How common is Leeuwen compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Leeuwen is the 27th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leeuwen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leeuwenThe 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, “Leeuwen” — the 27th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.